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‘Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories’ by Ch’oe Myŏngik (Review)
Books set in North Korea are always intriguing, especially to someone like me with an interest in Korean literature, so when I heard that a collection of stories from one of the country’s classic...
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‘The Dawn of the Warrior Age’, translated by Royall Tyler
Those who have heard of translator Royall Tyler are likely to have done so through his translation of The Tale of Genji, but that’s far from his only work. He’s brought a number of classics of...
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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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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