Disappearing women are a hallmark of Murakami’s work. So are the Beatles, jazz, cats, precocious boys — all of which are in ...

Haruki Murakami's novels aren’t just books; they’re gateways into strange, beautiful worlds where reality often blurs into ...

How did a demure jazz-club owner become a global literary sensation and a perennial Nobel Prize contender? Behind the ...

In the afterword to his latest novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” Haruki Murakami writes that authors spend their careers rearranging a “limited pallet of motifs” to tell a ...

In one of his most popular novels, Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami’s protagonist — Kafka Tamura — meets a young man called Oshima, whom he describes as “pretty, rather than handsome”.

Others packed into Three Lives & Company, a small West Village bookstore, at 10 PM to celebrate the midnight release of Haruki ... Kafka at the Shore and Norwegian Wood, drank sake, and answered ...

The birth of Haruki Murakami’s career as a beloved giant ... His international bestsellers, such as “Norwegian Wood” (1987) and “Kafka on the Shore” (2002), addictively juggle fantasy ...

“A legend is an attempt to explain the inexplicable; bound to end in the inexplicable,” wrote Franz Kafka. What’s true for legends is true of Haruki Murakami’s stories, which often draw ...