Japan
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from A Student of History
It was both daunting and thrilling, all the more surreal because it happened in a place I knew.
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A Weeping Tree of His Own: Yasunari Kawabata’s Dandelions
Blindness as a concept is central to Kawabata’s novel, where every character is blind to something.
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On Birds, Cats, and Children
My devotion to the cats was not an imitation of human motherhood. To confuse the two, I thought, was an insult to both.
