By the time he reaches his 40s, the narrator has a perfectly ordinary job working for a book distribution company, but one ...

The pioneer of modern Japanese poetry and the lyricist of Howl's Moving Castle's ending song, Shuntaro Tanikawa, passes away ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

From 17th century author Ihara Saikaku’s stories to Murakami’s queer characters, that reveal the author as a staunch ally, ...

The Department of World Languages and Cultures Italian program at UMass Lowell (UML) is honored to welcome Nobel Prize nominee for literature Dacia Maraini. Join us for a conversation with Maraini on ...

Yui and his father Shigeru Kashima, 74, a professor of French literature ... not only to sell and buy books, but to enjoy "chatting about books", he said. Japan' industry ministry in March ...

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Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History ... to the shaping of American literature with novels and plays and poems ...

Browse a rack of translated Japanese literature these days and you’re likely to spot a certain motif among the book covers: cats. Often recognized as an atmospheric trope or plot device in the ...

(Mainichi/Motoko Hamada) Japan's annual "book week" period is underway ... Books are not only a source of knowledge. Literature, such as poetry and novels, can liberate the reader's soul into ...