Such is the writer’s love of repetition that a game of Murakami bingo resurfaces every time he publishes a new book.
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Online platforms like Reddit and Wattpad let writers test their skills for an audience – and provide a testing ground for Hollywood, too, through likes and upvotes.
Meticulously constructed and shot, this four part anthology series gets Murakami’s love of moving from the mundane to the ridiculous.
New novel The City and its Uncertain Walls gives its two narrators different words for “I” in Japanese – a nuance that is difficult to translate to English.
The Japanese author’s new novel features a walled town with no music or books, a speaking shadow, the ghost of a head librarian, and a teenage boy who remembers every book he has read.
Loneliness is an enduring theme across art, music and literature. What makes us lonely, and how can we address it as a society?
Japanese and English readers have read Murakami in quite different contexts and chronologies.
In recent fiction, cities are coming alive.
The world’s highest selling writer says 22-hour working days are the route to literary riches. But, say, our literary experts, there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
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