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Putting the Asian Experience of World War II at Center Stage: A Reading List of Essential Books

Putting the Asian Experience of World War II at Center Stage: A Reading List of Essential Books

Cundill Prize Finalist on Kazuo Ishiguro, Rana Mitter, Richard Flanagan, and More

By Gary J. Bass | November 2, 2023

15 of the Creepiest Children in Literature

15 of the Creepiest Children in Literature

Come Play With Us, Reader

By Literary Hub | March 1, 2018

I Hope Haruki Murakami Wins the Nobel Prize—and Will Be Thrilled When He Doesn't

I Hope Haruki Murakami Wins the Nobel Prize—and Will Be Thrilled When He Doesn't

Naomi J. Williams on Her Love-Hate Relationship with the Perennial Favorite

By Naomi J. Williams | October 12, 2016

Why Does Literature Hate Babies?

Why Does Literature Hate Babies?

On the Sometimes Reciprocal Hostility Between Writing and Children

By Rivka Galchen | May 6, 2016

Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

Ruminations On America, Harvard Square, 1965

By Kenzaburo Oe | October 8, 2015

Jonathan Franzen: On Page-Turners and Big Ideas

Jonathan Franzen: On Page-Turners and Big Ideas

Purity">Wyatt Mason in Conversation with the Author of Purity

By Literary Hub | October 1, 2015

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