Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a mesmerizing exploration of love, memory, and identity, blending his ...

I perform because I am underconfident about my true interests.

When I was sixteen, I attended a writing workshop with a group of precocious young poets, where we all tried very hard to prove who among us was the most tortured upper-middle-class teenager. One boy ...

PHILIP ROTH never really left New Jersey. Saul Bellow could not keep his characters out of Chicago. And Haruki Murakami’s ...

Haruki Murakami, the Japanese master of magical realism, has been enchanting the literary world for 45 years. Read on to discover five novels that will take you into his world of talking cats, ...

Haruki Murakami’s routine is a model of discipline. He wakes before dawn, sitting down to write first thing in the morning, when his focus is at its sharpest. After a few hours of work, he runs—every ...

Haruki Murakami's latest novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, explores the shifting boundaries of identity, using surreal cityscapes to explore borders both literal and figurative.