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Surreal Lives
by Ruth Brandon“Surrealism is now associated more with whimsy than with the lacerating and uncanny effects first sought by the French poets who first formulated its principles . . . [Surreal Lives…
The Possessed
by Witold GombrowiczFrom “a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English…
Grove at Home: April 11—17
…keeping with tradition, Ōe delivered a Nobel Lecture a few months later, entitled “Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself.” After a discussion of how he survived the war as a boy…
Grove at Home: March 23-27
…sentiment. If you haven’t read it, read it. “But it’s too simple to blame Trump for what is happening. In the 1980s, officials from both parties cast Japan as the…
Grove at Home: November 22-28
…unsuccessful coup that aimed to overturn Japan’s 1947 constitution. In this stunning interview, Mishima shares his opinions on various aspects of Japanese culture. “Economic prosperity… gives a big, huge spiritual…
Grove at Home: October 4—10
…writes her books, and much more. “Until recently, Sayaka Murata, who won Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa prize, worked in a convenience store. She had toiled in them…
Grove at Home: July 19—25
…name reflects her love of banana flowers — is today an admired writer with a global readership, and something of an unofficial spokesperson for a generation born in 1960s Japan….
Grove at Home: July 5—11
…Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, and European languages, Suzuki became legendary as perhaps the key figure in introducing European and American audiences to centuries of thought in the Zen and Shin Buddhist…
Convenience Store Woman Captivates the New Yorker, NPR’s Fresh Air, the New York Times, and more
In Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata has written a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan, taking a sharp and timely look at the pressure to conform. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori,…
Books to Read on Earth Day
…kind, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth…
