Articles tagged "Japan"

From “A Drifting Life” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Yoshihiro Tatsumi | February 3, 2009

Translated from Japanese by Taro Nettleton

Blogging about Graphics in February (Dispatches)

By The Editors | February 3, 2009

As part of our third annual Graphic Novels issue, we'll be featuring blog posts on the art, inspiration, histories and technical details behind the most exciting graphic narratives out there. All this…...

Amber Qureshi Discusses Yoko Ogawa’s “Dormitory” (Dispatches)

By Amber Qureshi | January 30, 2009

In her final post for the Ogawa book club, moderator Amber Qureshi talks about the third novella in The Diving Pool and the author's cinematic use of light and shadow in her writing. Thanks to all for…...

“The Diving Pool” Blog Post (Dispatches)

By Amber Qureshi | January 27, 2009

In her blog post on the titular story from Yoko Ogawa's collection of novellas, Amber Qureshi discusses the author's unique use of rhythm and imagery and posits some questions for discussion. For links…...

Allison Powell on “The Diving Pool” (Dispatches)

By Allison Powell | January 21, 2009

In an essay that was originally featured in the companion booklet to her and Stephen Snyder's discussion of The Diving Pool at the Idlewild bookstore in New York City, Allison Powell talks about Ogawa,…...

Ogawa Book Club Post—“Pregnancy Diary” (Dispatches)

By Amber Qureshi | January 16, 2009

In her second post for our Diving Pool-discussion, Amber Qureshi discusses "Pregnancy Diary,"one of the novellas from the book and poses questions for our readers. You can find links to previous posts…...

Plumbing the Haunted Imagination of Yoko Ogawa (Dispatches)

By Austin Woerner | January 13, 2009

Austin Woerner reports on the discussion between Stephen Snyder and Allison Powell at the Idlewild bookstore last Thursday, January 8, in New York City. You can find the video from the event at the Words…...

Stephen Snyder talks about “The Diving Pool (Dispatches)

By Bud P. | January 13, 2009

In the second installment in our Diving Pool book club, Stephen Snyder, the translator of the book and of Ogawa's Housekeeper and the Professor (forthcoming from Picador), speaks to Amber Qureshi about…...

An Introduction to “The Diving Pool” by Yoko Ogawa (Dispatches)

By Amber Qureshi | January 9, 2009

Amber Qureshi jumpstarts the discussion of Yoko Ogawa's Diving Pool with an introduction to the author, her work and contemporary Japanese literature. Amber will be posting her impressions of The Diving…...

Online Book Club for “The Diving Pool” by Yoko Ogawa (Dispatches)

By The Editors | January 8, 2009

This January, we kick off the year in book clubs with an online discussion of Yoko Ogawa's Diving Pool. Ogawa is one of contemporary Japan's most celebrated authors, and her collection of meticulously…...

Open Call for Manga (Dispatches)

By Rohan Kamicheril | September 3, 2007

Ned Beauman at the Guardian's Book Blog gives us a refresher course in Japanese Manga and polls his readers in his most recent post. The perplexing and often misunderstood Japanese narrative art form has…...

Waiting in the Offing (Mag: Articles)

By Akiko Itoyama | March 1, 2007

"Itoyama's sharp eye and sly wit set her apart from other Japanese women writers. Her writing style is intellectually controlled, and often glows with wisdom."--Kenzaburo Oe "My hiccups won't stop."…...

Translated from Japanese by Charles De Wolf

Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women on Japanese Women, compiled by Cathy Layne (Mag: Book Reviews)

By Sailaja Sastry | April 3, 2006

Inside and Other Short Fiction--Japanese Women by Japanese Women offers a corrective to Western and Japanese stereotypes of Japanese women's sexuality. The stories in this collection are connected…...

Metamorphosis (Mag: Articles)

By Fumiko Enchi | November 1, 2004

1 He later recalled that it had been a strange, sleepless night. Sanogawa Shinsha had fallen asleep in bed with a script propped on his chest when word arrived that his younger brother, Tojaku, had just…...

Translated from Japanese by S. Yumiko Hulvey

Granny Long Tongue (Mag: Articles)

By Chiba Mikio | November 1, 2004

This story is set in the time when monsters were still living up there in the mountains and down here in the forests. Granny Long Tongue and Red Ban the Ogre lived high up on Mt. Okuyama, at Okumata Pass.…...

Translated from Japanese by Michael Emmerich

Whenever I Sit at a Bar Drinking Like This, I Always Think What a Sacred Profession Bartending Is (Mag: Articles)

By Ryu Murakami | August 1, 2004

Whenever I sit at a bar drinking like this, I always think what a sacred profession bartending is. The bartender, with the stained-glass shelves of many-colored bottles behind him, moves precisely about…...

Translated from Japanese by Ralph McCarthy

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