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 ...

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 ...

Murakami still ran his “Peter Cat” jazz joint. Its tale of a lonely misfit teenager—one of many in the author’s body of work—who strays into the storybook-walled town of his dreams would ...

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 ...

For example, the body of work with the common title Rough Wind appears to be an attempt to document and describe the sound, ...