Written by Seong-nan Ha | Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong More often than not, when a musician finishes an album, their first job is to figure out what order the tracks should be played in...
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Written by Seong-nan Ha | Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong More often than not, when a musician finishes an album, their first job is to figure out what order the tracks should be played in...
You think ancient Japan, you picture samurai, geisha, and ninja. You think modern Japan, you picture anime, robots, and neon-lit streets. More than any other nation, Japan is famous in equal parts...
The Red Circle Minis Collection – Three New Japanese Stories The ethos and approach to publishing of Red Circle Authors Limited is everything that we at Books and Bao cherish. As someone who...
Hi guys! My name’s Rebecca from becular.com – I’ve been living in Ho Chi Minh City as a digital nomad for the past few months and have struggled with only one thing: finding books. Getting a...
So you want to start reading Haruki Murakami. You’ve seen his overwhelming popularity both in Japan and the West; you’ve heard the whispers, over and over, that he might finally win the Nobel Prize...
Written by Wang Ting-Kuo | Translated from Chinese by Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-Chun Lin Here is one of those rare books that has a lot to unpack – metaphor, motifs, motivations – but proves...
From Shakespeare to the Brontes to JK Rowling, no nation on Earth has so many great names that define the world of literature as the United Kingdom. We live and breathe the work of these authors;...
The Beauty of Travel Writing Adventurers, explorers, travellers – whatever you wish to call them – have been documenting their discoveries and experiences for hundreds of years. Setting...
The Book of Tehran | Edited by Fereshteh Ahmadi Here is the latest in Comma Press’ fantastic vision of gathering short stories from cities all around the globe, translating them, and binding them...
All eyes are trained on Indonesia right now. Its tourism is flourishing more than ever; foreigners from the West are flooding there to work and live cheaply and healthily (for better or worse), and...
