P HILIP ROTH never really left New Jersey. Saul Bellow could not keep his characters out of Chicago. And Haruki Murakami’s ...

Murakami began writing “The City” in March 2020, and while it’s no pandemic novel, its themes of reassessment and isolation ...

Six years after the publication of his last work, Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami is back with his new novel titled The ...

I’ can for example be expressed as watakushi, ore, atashi, uchi or washi. The Japanese language, therefore, has a range of ...

Murakami’s unnamed narrator enters limbo after ... (“My real self – the real me – is in a town far away, living a completely different life. A town surrounded by a high wall that doesn ...

Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel ... For instance, the setting and premise of the town with the tall wall, which plays a central role in both works, is generally the same – to enter ...

One could argue that this new novel, released six years after his last, is a pandemic novel—even Murakami was not immune from ...

I suspect that in some parallel, magical universe, a relatively unknown Murakami has just published a delightful novella about a town with impregnable, shape-shifting walls, and a man who arrives ...

Murakami in particular thrives in this genre, taking us from the all to known landscape of modern Tokyo and the sprawling Japanese countryside to the dreary unnamed town where part of the story ...