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colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage

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The Rumpus Interview with Jay Rubin

  • Nikkitha Bakshani
  • July 8, 2015
Author and translator Jay Rubin talks about his new novel, The Sun Gods, translating Haruki Murakami into English, and the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II.
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The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books

  • Julie Morse
  • September 26, 2014
Women in Clothes, the sexism of Haruki Murakami, and poems about Gertrude Stein and desire.
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • September 22, 2014
Murakami's depiction of the murdered female sex object at the center of his new novel is not only sexist and irresponsible. It's also lazy writing.
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Murakami and Brain-Munching Sheep

  • Casey Dayan
  • September 3, 2014
An old man takes the boy hostage and forces him to memorize a large number of books. The boy eventually realizes that the man plans to absorb the information he’s…
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Complementary Coverage

  • Liv Lansdale
  • August 11, 2014
If asked who reviewed Haruki Murakami’s new novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Patti Smith might not be your…
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Murakami’s Un-American Talents

  • Alex Norcia
  • August 8, 2014
Laura Miller, writing at Salon, argues that Haruki Murakami has a simple and often understated skill that American writers lack (or at least, aren’t willing to pursue): how he tramples…
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A Really Strange Story

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 29, 2014
“I have a kind of weird story related to death. Something my father told me. He said it was an actual experience he had when he was in his early…
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