Like a lot of people who go on to high achievement later in life, the future novelist had trouble paying attention to what ...

Haruki Murakami was a mediocre student. Like a lot of people who go on to high achievement later in life, the future novelist ...

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Haruki Murakami is back. More than a comeback, it is a rebirth: that of a short story he wrote in 1980 but never dared publish. Forty years later, this unfinished story has blossomed into a monumental ...

Saul Bellow could not keep his characters out of Chicago. And Haruki Murakami’s narrators—unmarried, often middle-aged men with solitary habits—continually slip into eerie netherworlds.

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