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Haruki Murakami

BOOKS 

Judge a Book by Its Amazing New Revamped Cover (and Original Art Inside)

July 10, 2025July 8, 2025 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Beowulf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George R.R. Martin, Haruki Murakami, Mia Farrow, Philip K. Dick, Robert Redford, The Folio Society, The Great Gatsby, Yuko Shimizu

The Great Gatsby and others get the Folio Society treatment

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Propaganda
Politics 

Russia’s War On Books

February 27, 2024March 1, 2024 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Florida, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Haruki Murakami, Megamarket, Oscar Wilde, Ron DeSantis, Russia, Stephen King, the Picture of Dorian Gray, Vladimir Putin

The ideas of mainstream authors fall victim to Putin-approved censorship under a spurious new law outlawing “propaganda”

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Literary Prizes
CREATORS Writers 

Do We Need Literary Prizes?

December 14, 2022December 22, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation, Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Haruki Murakami’s thought-provoking new essay collection says the unsayable

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Fitzgerald
FICTION 

F. Scott Fitzgerald Saw It All Coming

May 24, 2022June 6, 2022 Michael Washburn 4 Comments F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haruki Murakami, Tender is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon

The Jazz Age and the modern age aren’t so different

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Drive My Car
FILM 

‘Drive My Car’ Stays In Its Lane

January 17, 2022April 3, 2022 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Drive My Car, Haruki Murakami, Ryusuke Hamaguchi

The tricky business of turning a Haruki Murakami story into an Oscar-worthy drama

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Gurnah
CREATORS FICTION Writers 

The Great Gurnah

November 3, 2021April 3, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chinua Achebe, Haruki Murakami, Paradise, Peter Carey, Peter Handke, Things Fall Apart

An appreciation of this year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature

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Murakami
FICTION 

Haruki Murakami Library Opens in Tokyo

October 1, 2021April 3, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Haruki Murakami, Japan, Kengo Kuma, Shiga Naoya, Yukio Mishima

A literary salve for a nation in troubled times

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New York Film Festival
FILM 

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

September 27, 2021September 29, 2021 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Benedetta, Dario Argento, Denzel Washington, Drive My Car, Frances McDormand, Gaspar Noé, Haruki Murakami, Joel Coen, Kathryn Hunter, Lincoln Center, New York Film Festival, Radu Jude, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Titane, Vortex

The New York Film Festival Returns…and Expands

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Murakami
CREATORS FICTION Writers 

The Empathy of Haruki Murakami

January 19, 2021March 15, 2022 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Haruki Murakami, Ozamu Dazi, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima

Japan’s most famous writer looks at the COVID-19 crisis from the viewpoint of ordinary people

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Burning
FILM 

‘Burning’: A Little Chilly

October 26, 2018 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Burning, Haruki Murakami, Steven Yeun

Anyone Up For Some Low-Key South Korean Noir?

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Featured Stories

16 New Books To Read in November
BOOKS Featured Stories 

16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0

From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

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Biography DOCUMENTARY Featured Stories FILM Netflix NON-FICTION Streaming 

Norm Was a Vibe

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’
Featured Stories FILM 

Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0
But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’
Comedy DOCUMENTARY Featured Stories 

But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0

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