Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami's new collection of short stories explores borders between reality, dreams and memory

At first, you are carried along in the slipstream of bizarre but plausible detail — a feat Murakami achieves through the use of banal, if not clichéd, language.

Haruki Murakami collaborates with clothing brand Uniqlo to design t-shirts inspired by his life, work

In a comprehensive interview with Uniqlo, Murakami opened up about style, fashion, and why he always wore a tie while in Italy.

Haruki Murakami hosts live jam for relaxation amid pandemic, says 'Good music heals people, fires up kindness'

Despite the pandemic, Murakami — known for bestsellers including A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84 — said he still maintains a daily routine including running and writing, but the frequent world traveler has stayed in Japan.

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award cancelled: Public has been subjected to too many bad things in 2020, say judges

The award’s purpose, according to the magazine, is to honor the year’s “most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description” and to draw attention “to the poorly written, redundant or downright cringe-worthy passages of sexual description in modern fiction.”

Literature for the Video Age: Haruki Murakami is a popular author, but what is his literary legacy?

Haruki Murakami is a gifted writer since one devours his books and little of what he writes rings false. But he is not from an age that prides itself in its literature.

Burning movie review: Lee Chang Dong's film brings a Haruki Murakami short story to life — and how

Burning was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.

Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore deemed 'indecent' by Hong Kong censors

Haruki Murakami's novel Killing Commendatore cannot be sold to minors in Hong Kong and must be sealed in a wrapper with warning notices

Men Without Women book review: Haruki Murakami explores jazz music, alienation and more

The book is typical Murakami. The women are strong, cats make an appearance, there's jazz music, whisky, sex and adultery, a sense of loss and most of all — alienation.

It's time to relieve women of 'home manager' role, even as debate rages over men's share in household chores

A discussion on Quora seems to have made many men in the country vocal about the skewed participation of men and women in household chores

On Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate: How I was Robert Zimmermanned into submission

Let’s just say that Dylan likes making his own avatars, and remember that the word, in Indian demotic ranges from devout to uncomplimentary.