A Surprising Route to the Best Life Possible
Some people go through life thick-skinned. School or career has given them a pragmatic, instrumental, efficiency-maximizing ...
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Haruki Murakami’s latest novel set in the mountains of Fukushima is a masterpiece
Haruki Murakami is back. More than a comeback, it is a rebirth: that of a short story he wrote in 1980 but never dared publish. Forty years later, this unfinished story has blossomed into a monumental ...
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When Haruki Murakami Takes His Own Magic for Granted
Haruki Murakami’s new novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, features an imaginary world that is both intricate and baffling: A parallel universe contains a walled city, which contains a ...
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5 novels by Japanese author Haruki Murakami to read at least once in a lifetime
Haruki Murakami, the Japanese master of magical realism, has been enchanting the literary world for 45 years. Read on to discover five novels that will take you into his world of talking cats ...
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Review: A Novel About Walls, Both Literal and Figurative
Haruki Murakami's latest novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, explores the shifting boundaries of identity, using surreal cityscapes to explore borders both literal and figurative.
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Noted Japanese author Haruki Murakami is happy with first animated adaptation of his short stories
Renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami expressed joy with how several of his short stories were adapted in American director Pierre Földes’ animated film “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman ...
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Haruki Murakami given honorary Ph.D. by alma mater
Widely acclaimed writer Haruki Murakami has received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Waseda University. A ceremony was held on Dec. 17 at which Murakami said receiving the honorary ...
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AUTHORS ALIVE!: Murakami adds voice to his work in reading with Yoko Ogawa
book-reading and other events to mark the opening of the Waseda International House of Literature known as the Haruki Murakami Library. In a captivating session where two of Japan’s most ...
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Murakami opens up on his latest translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald
As part of his life’s work in making F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books more accessible to Japanese readers, novelist Haruki Murakami has translated and released Fitzgerald’s final novel ...
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For author Haruki Murakami, reading fiction helps us ‘see through lies’
OVIEDO, Spain--For Japanese author Haruki Murakami, the bloody conflict in the Gaza Strip is a horrendous example of how our world is divided by walls, both physical and metaphorical. But while ...
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Murakami awarded French international literary prize
PARIS--Japanese author Haruki Murakami was awarded this year’s prestigious Cino Del Duca World Prize, an international literary award that recognizes a novelist whose works deliver a message of ...