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‘The Voice Over’ by Maria Stepanova (Review)
Whenever I start thinking about Women in Translation Month, I take myself off to the study and rummage through my shelves to see what’s lurking at the back, forgotten and waiting to be rediscovered (it...
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‘Tales of Moonlight and Rain’ by Ueda Akinari (Review)
I’m extremely fortunate that the university library has a rather relaxed view of lending limits for staff (or that I borrow the kind of books nobody else wants to read…) as I’ve had my current crop of...
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‘The Confucius Chronicles’, translated and edited by Wai-yee Li (Review)
While I rarely spend more than a few days on any one book, occasionally, owing to a busy schedule or the nature of the book, I need a good while longer, and both of these were the case with today’s...
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‘The Traitor’ by Kōbō Abe (Review)
For whatever reason, of all the big-name twentieth-century Japanese writers, Kōbō Abe is the one whose work I’ve never really examined in detail. I have read The Woman in the Dunes a couple of times,...
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‘The Textual Townsman’ by Thomas Gaubatz (Review)
After the last couple of #JanuaryInJapan posts saw us spending time in the Heian Era, we’re skipping forward a good few centuries today for the final review post of the month, with our focus on life in...
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‘Chūshingura’ by Izumo Takeda, Shōraku Miyoshi and Senryū Namiki (Review)
After a collection of stories with a feminine touch, today’s January In Japan adventure (and that much I can promise you – it *is* an adventure!) is far more testosterone-fuelled. We’re taking a trip...
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‘Portraits in White’ by Kaori Lai (Review)
While my focus on Taiwanese literature has never quite reached the heights of my obsession with Japanese and Korean books, I’m always keen to take a look at new works in English, so when Columbia...
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‘The Red Wind Howls’ by Tsering Döndrup (Review)
Around six years ago, I was fortunate enough to be sent a copy of Tsering Döndrup’s The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (translated by Christopher Peacock and Lauran Hartley), a collection of tales...
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‘The Running Flame’ by Fang Fang (Review)
You may remember my review a while back on Fang Fang’s Soft Burial, a novel exploring the consequences of the Chinese Land Reform Movement in the middle of the last century, and if you liked the sound...
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‘Ukifune: Love in The Tale of Genji’, edited by Andrew Pekarik (Review)
Given my decision to start a lengthy chapter-by-chapter journey through the book, 2025 was always going to be another year dominated by The Tale of Genji, and these chapter posts have already been...
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‘Soft Burial’ by Fang Fang (Review)
Thanks to the kind people at Columbia University Press, I’ve enjoyed many works of Japanese and Korean fiction (and non-fiction) over the years, but their excellent Weatherhead Books on Asia series...
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‘Expatriates of No Country’, edited by Brigitta Olubas (Review)
While I tend to be slightly selective with the books I read and review, I occasionally take a chance and put myself in the hands of publishers – which can go rather badly on occasion. However, there...
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‘Eclipse’ by Keiichirō Hirano (Review)
With Anglophone publishers seemingly falling over themselves to bring the fluffier side of Japanese literature into English, it’s always nice when something a little more substantial than cats and...
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‘Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600’, edited...
Earlier this year, I finally got around to catching one of my literary white whales, namely The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature (which had been on my shelves for a good decade or so…)....
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‘The Same Moon Shines on All’ by Jonathan Chaves and Matthew Fraleigh (Review)
I’m always up for trying something new in my adventures in Japanese literature, and today’s choice certainly fits the bill, even if the content is far from contemporary. We’re heading back to the...
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‘Envisioning The Tale of Genji’, edited by Haruo Shirane (Review)
After a slightly lighter look at The Tale of Genji earlier this week, today’s post sees me returning to more academic views, with another addition to my rapidly burgeoning library of secondary...
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‘Table for One’ by Yun Ko-eun (Review)
I’ve been lucky enough to receive several enjoyable books courtesy of Columbia University Press recently, but while today’s choice is another of those, this time around I’m not off to Japan. Instead,...
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‘Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams’, translated by Royall Tyler (Review)
Japanese books make up quite a hefty proportion of my literary diet, but while I occasionally dabble in non-fiction and poetry, the vast majority of my J-Lit reading is prose fiction. Today’s choice,...
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‘The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature’ (Abridged), edited by...
One of my more popular posts is one I knocked up on collections of Japanese literature, a useful guide for anyone wanting to dip their toes into the sea of the country’s writing. For some time,...
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‘Beauty Matters’ by Anri Yasuda (Review)
One of my favourite Japanese writers is Natsume Sōseki, but while I’ve read just about everything of his that’s been translated into English, I haven’t tried that much by other writers from that period...
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