Fans of novels like “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” and “1Q84” can now trace their author’s current of imagination to his debut fiction, newly available for the first time in thirty years.
The long dreamed-of return of Twin Peaks is happening, and we haven’t stopped eating celebratory pie and coffee since David Lynch gave word. While we wait for the third season to arrive with nothing but our sentient log friends to keep us company, we’ll be losing ourselves in books that capture the spirit of Lynch’s singular […]
Gong Xi Fa Cai! This Thursday marks the Chinese Lunar New Year, that auspicious time of year when you put on your best red clothes, eat a fish for luck, and dutifully abide by all of your mother’s Chinese New Year superstitions. Okay, that might just be my family. This year, the Lunar New Year kicks […]
In the final month of summer, we’re looking for reads that are dishy with depth, and page-turners that are smart and engrossing enough to keep our attention in the season’s dog days. From the debut works of a fiction master to a survival story set in Henry VIII’s court, these are the books we’re reading right […]
Just in time for the holidays, a new story from Haruki Murakami is coming to bookstores, in an illustrated, book-sized edition that’s a perfect gift for fans who’ve already vacuumed up Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. The Strange Library concerns a boy whose routine trip to the city library turns nightmarish, and the […]