There are many layers to Riku Onda’s hypnotic novel, The Aosawa Murders (seamlessly translated by […]
Echo on the Bay, by Masatsugu Ono
To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, all happy villages are alike and all unhappy villages are unhappy […]
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, by Natasha Pulley
I’ve been waiting impatiently for Natasha Pulley to write another book featuring the all-knowing Keita […]
Breasts and Eggs, by Mieko Kawakami
Where Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 presents a Korean everywoman without diving too deeply into her […]
The Sweetest Fruits, by Monique Truong
At one point in Monique Truong’s novel, The Sweetest Fruits, one of the narrators tells […]
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura, by Christine Wunnicke
It’s a remarkable coincidence that I finished reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall […]
An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World reminded me just how much I love unreliable narrators who are unreliable […]
Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa’s Deluge, by Yusuke Kimura
In April of 2011, northern Japan suffered a trio of disasters. A massive offshore earthquake […]
The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda, by Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo
Content warning for rape. Every culture has its stories and rituals for death. In The Afterlife […]
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata
Keiko Furukura has an unusual flaw. Though she’s intelligent, she doesn’t understand other people. Ever […]