Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls is an immersive read that pulls you in completely and rewards you if you are willing to lose yourself in its strange, mysterious world. An unnamed ...

Japanese fans of Haruki Murakami will probably have to go to an actual bookstore to get the author’s new essay collection. The retail chain Books Kinokuniya is buying 90% of the first print run of ...

Attention literati! Put down whatever else you're reading. A new Murakami novel has arrived -- and there's sufficient reason why more than 1 million copies vanished from bookstores throughout Japan ...

There’s a certain ache in Murakami’s stories, the kind that feels like jazz on a rainy night. His books blend the mundane and ...

Haruki Murakami’s sentences have always ticked forward with the confident beat of footfalls. Even his most surreal daydreams unfurl with pace and deliberation. In his latest book What I Talk About ...

In Slate this week, I assess Haruki Murakami, the internationally celebrated Japanese novelist whose new book, 1Q84, is currently climbing the best-seller lists. For years now, Murakami has been known ...

If, like me, you're dying to read Haruki Murakami's next novel 1Q84, (it's a runaway bestseller in Japan right now) you should go over to Night RPM, which has translated an interview with Murakami ...

The Nobel oddsmakers were wrong—again! Year after year, bookies put their bets on Japanese author Haruki Murakami winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. Instead, the Swedish Academy announced this ...

Librarians in Japan are upset after a newspaper published the names of books that novelist Haruki Murakami, 66, checked out as a teenager from his high school library, the Asahi Shimbun reports. The ...

In the annals of literary history, novelists have often been sports maniacs—Hemingway had his hunting, Mailer his boxing, Plimpton his football. Now Japanese cult writer Haruki Murakami has his ...