Books

The Japanese writer's latest release is a thoroughly modern novel that reflects the seismic changes technology and globalization have wrought on humanity.

Editor Taylor Mignon's collection of Japanese visual poetry highlights artists who are of key importance to understanding 20th-century Japanese poetry.

Geraldine Harcourt’s road to translating Yuko Tsushima’s stories parallels the writer’s artistic conceits: a fiercely independent woman determined to construct her own path.

Landscape artist Marc Peter Keane’s collection of essays experiments with form and offers practical observations as well as metaphysical musings.

Takuji Ichikawa’s novella presents a fully realized world within its short span, with connections and contrasts to our world that are at turns bold and subtle.

Chris Glenn's new book brings one of the most significant events in Japanese history to life in a blow-by-blow account of the battle that took place in 1600.

Daniel Joseph's translation of the punk rock artist turned author's novella, "Rip It Up," opens the door to a more avant-garde, experimental kind of Japanese literature for English readers.

The book "Temple Alley Summer," originally published in Japanese as "Kimyōji yokochō no natsu" is a mysterious fantasy tale about the summer vacation of a ghost girl and her classmates.

The author delves deep into the mind of a murderer and the monstrous depths of humanity in his complex thriller “My Annihilation,” his latest novel to be translated into English.