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

Here is the second of two articles summarising and reviewing the stories found in the […]

Eight chapbooks, each containing a tale (or tales) of around thirty or forty pages, all

Most established authors become known for their tropes, be they genre, theme, character type, or

In 2017 the Nobel Prize for Literature was won by the illustrious Kazuo Ishiguro, and

Translated from the Japanese by Ryan Holmberg In the wake of the bombings of Hiroshima

When reaching for a piece of Japanese fiction, be it novel, manga, or anime, there’s

It’s been an amazing year for fiction. Here are some of our favourite books this year written

When I was living in Inagi-shi, a once-upon-a-time small city now swallowed up by the

As a twenty-something who has, not for a moment, put learning and discovery behind him,

Dystopian fiction is arguably the most impactful, clever, and chilling kind of storytelling we have,