The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of ...

Japanese comfort fiction is quietly dominating global bestseller lists. While loud, high-stakes novels compete for attention, readers are turning towards intimate stories of cafés, libraries and ...

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: Why did you end up studying Japanese texts? DA: As a kid, my family were followers of an Indian guru, and so we spent time as sort of ...

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

If you're looking for a book to read, The Tale of Genji is one worth reaching for, even if you've read it before, and even if you've read it more than once. But why is this novel so important, and how ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...

‘The Tale of Genji’ is a cornerstone of classical Japanese literature. By Andrew Paul Published Jul 16, 2025 11:35 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Donald Keene, a scholar of Japanese literature who became the first foreigner to receive the country's highest cultural award, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Sunday.

Between their iconic black-and-white-and-orange covers, the Penguin Classics line offers canonical texts by internationally recognized masters of literature like Pablo Neruda, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and ...