United Nations

With four new chapters, this updated edition of United Nations: A History completes the story of the UN’s last sixty-five years, its successes and turbulent past….

Peace Kills

“Peace Kills is war coverage in the great tradition of Catch 22 and M*A*S*H: Wars can be right or wrong, but they are always crazy and frightening in the center…

Goodbye Tsugumi

“Yoshimoto’s words are considered, and each of them has the weight of a small, perfectly round stone dropped into a still pool. . . . In Tsugumi the author has…

Death by Water

Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe’s new novel is a finely woven masterpiece about a writer who searches for the truth behind his father’s death and discovers a new family legacy…

The Crazy Iris and Other Stories from the Atomic Aftermath

“In compiling this anthology I have come to realize anew that the short stories included herein are”a means for stirring our imaginative powers to consider the fundamental conditions of human…

Bankei Zen

The Anniversary

Longlisted for the Stella Prize For fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascendant writer, the unresolved death of her husband, and…

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

“[A] remarkable book. . . . Oe is a supremely gifted writer (and fortunate in having found Nathan as a translator.)” –Ivan Gold, The Washington Post…

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

“Rouse Up is a series of linked, meditative stories that examine Nobel laureate Oe’s changing relationship with his adolescent brain-damaged son through the prism of [William] Blake’s poetry . ….

How Asia Works

“Provocative. . . . How Asia Works is a striking and enlightening book . . . A lively mix of scholarship, reporting and polemic.” —The Economist…