Literature

Read our reviews of translated literature, author spotlights, essays, and translator interviews to discover something new.

Review: City of Ash and Red by Hye-Young Pyun

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Review: The Lonesome Bodybuilder (Picnic in the Storm)

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Review: Japan Story (1850-present)

The Keshiki Series: New Voices from Japan (Part 2)

The Keshiki Series: New Voices from Japan (Part 1)

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Review: Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami

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Review: All You Can Ever Know – a Memoir by Nicole Chung

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Five Translated Asian Graphic Novels/Comics We Love

Review: Bad Friends by Ancco

Japanese Nobel Prize Winners

Japan’s Nobel Prize Winners: The Fantasist, The Rebel, and the Aesthete

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Will Heath

Will predominantly writes about the books of Books and Bao, examining the literature of a place and how the authors have used the art of storytelling to reflect the world and the culture around them.