New Academy emphasizes respect, empathy, openness
The nominees for the New Academy Prize for literature have been announced. The New Academy has clearly taken steps to make it’s nomination process distinctly transparent and democratic, compiling their original… Read more »
Murakami’s new book faces restrictions in Hong Kong
Haruki Murakami is one of Japan’s most celebrated authors, selling millions of prize-winning books across the world. His new novel Killing Commendatore went on sale in Japan and China last… Read more »
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel — good news for Ishiguro fans, bad news for Atwood fans, complicated news for Ursula Le Guin
The world has a new Nobel laureate in literature. Some people are excited, some people are pissed, and some people just went to see The Book of Mormon. On Thursday,… Read more »
Following up on some of our recent stories…
MobyLives has been mostly taking it easy this August — we’re technically on hiatus, although, between publishing a list that’s fire, having a lot to say, and releasing the book of record… Read more »
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami’s high school library records
As a library patron, the right to privacy is a hugely important one, and when violations of that privacy become public, librarians tend to get pretty angry. And they’ve had cause… Read more »
Three for Tuesday: An Interview with Tim Parks
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
Dear Haruki Murakami
What do you do if you’re a self-confessed loner, recluse and a reluctant talker, who also happens to have sold millions of novels worldwide and has a matching number of… Read more »
Publishers scramble for their own “Murakami One-Two”
On Monday, Knopf announced the forthcoming publication of The Strange Library, a new book by Haruki Murakami. The 96-page novel will be released in December, only three and a half… Read more »
Japanese reading public morphs to love anything that comes from Haruki Murakami’s pen
Haruki Murakami’s new book, Onna no Inai Otokotachi [provisionally translated as “Men Without Women”], hit Japanese bookstores last week, providing, once again, proof of an unusual natural phenomenon: the ability… Read more »
Crunchyroll inks simultaneous-publication manga deal
In an interesting bit of simultaneous-publication news, the American company Crunchyroll — which hosts live streaming anime and other TV shows on its website — has announced that it will… Read more »