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The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
  • Sep 11, 2021
  • 1 min

The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories

"The Dancing Girl of Izu", particularly its last three pages, is excellent for its delicate poignancy. After that comes a series of...
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
  • Aug 26, 2021
  • 1 min

The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

I enjoyed this one. An excellent book that’s hard to put down. Walsh brings to life the settings—Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta—to...
Tokyo Junkie
  • May 18, 2021
  • 2 min

Tokyo Junkie

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...
Runaway Horses
  • May 10, 2021
  • 2 min

Runaway Horses

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...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  • Mar 6, 2021
  • 2 min

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

This meandering, dense, rather insane book is chockablock with ideas, which gelled at times and at others never fully took shape for me,...
The Samurai
  • Feb 13, 2021
  • 2 min

The Samurai

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