There are various reasons why people read modern Chinese literature. The works are crowned and affirmed by big literary awards,...
Day: December 23, 2013
Andrew Lee reviews the Murakami novel in The Japan Times Ryu Murakami is known for the sex-drugs-and-violence style of his...
“Haiku,” edited by haiku practitioner David Cobb, and “Haiku Love,” edited by Japanese language scholar Alan Cummings, are both fun...
In the hopes of getting to the bottom of the obsession, it made sense to search for logic. So I...
J Mirsky reviews Endymion Wilkinson’s Chinese History: A New Manual in the NYRB Many ambitious parents in the UK are now seeing...
A subversive thriller about a North Korean invasion of Japan is laced with black humour: A Larman in The Guardian...
'The Soil,' 'Magnolia and Lotus' selected as WLT's notable works: Korea Times Korean literary translations have been recognized as one...
Compiling an encyclopedia is a gigantic task but Yasir Jawad seems to have done a decent job of it: The...
Rejecting the general notion that only born dalits can write good literature on their community due to their personal experience,...
Juan Vidal in NPR I tend to like my heroes strong and capable; not self-important, but with a certain brand...
