"The Dancing Girl of Izu", particularly its last three pages, is excellent for its delicate poignancy. After that comes a series of...

I enjoyed this one. An excellent book that’s hard to put down. Walsh brings to life the settings—Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta—to...

Robert Whiting’s Tokyo Junkie covers the author’s ties to Japan’s megacity over a period of more than half a century, including his...

Mishima's second novel in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy is set in the early 1930s and follows Isao Iinuma, son of Shigeyuki Iinuma, who...

This meandering, dense, rather insane book is chockablock with ideas, which gelled at times and at others never fully took shape for me,...

Shusaku Endo’s The Samurai (1980) is a fictional account of a 17th-century diplomatic mission from Japan to “Nueva España,” or...