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Arthur Waley
…and Japanese literature as much for his vast knowledge of the field as for his sensitive, lively and often humorous renderings into English of its most important works. His translations…
William Riviere
Born in 1954 and brought up in Norfolk, William Rivière left Cambridge to spend several years in Venice and Japan. In addition to Kate Caterina, he is the author of…
Tokyo Cancelled
by Rana Dasgupta“[This] brilliantly conceived and jauntily delivered first novel . . . harks back to Boccaccio and Chaucer. . . . There is something marvelously primitive about the function of story…
Blueprints of the Afterlife
by Ryan BoudinotAn audacious, hilarious, and compelling novel of future shock, overconsumption, social control, and human nature by Ryan Boudinot, whom Dave Eggers has called “Some kind of new and dangerous cross…
The Zanzibar Chest
by Aidan Hartley“An extraordinary and heartbreaking book, the finest account of a war correspondent’s psychic wracking since Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and the best white writing from Africa in many, many years.” —Rian…
Triangle
by David Von Drehle“[An] outstanding history. . . . [Von Drehle] has written what is sure to become the definitive account of the fire. . . . Triangle is social history at its…
The Adventures of Lucky Pierre
by Robert Coover“An embodiment of a spectacle-obsessed entertainment culture that seems horribly like our own. . . . It delivers the ancient narrative satisfaction of seeing a character deal with the inexplicabilities…
From Where You Dream
by Robert Olen Butler“Butler shares his insights into—and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction with total openness, and seriously aspiring writers should receive this text/manifesto in the same light.” —Publishers Weekly (starred…
Easy in the Islands
by Bob Shacochis“[Shacochis’s] stories have an unselfconscious narrative momentum–a linear drive toward an ending–that I associate with the easy ways of an old master . . . I think this boy’s been…
