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Tale of Genji , known in Japanese as Genji montagari is commonly acknowledged to be the world’s earliest novel. This 54-chapter masterpiece...

The excitement is building as the Nobel Prize announcement day draws near.  2019 is a unique year for the Nobel Committee, as they will be g...

We are into Autumn and you seriously need to deal with your towering tsundoku pile (even the New Yorker says so!). Get that pile do...

In my first blog post as Indie Spotlight contributor, I wrote about The Foundling’s Daughter , set partly in India in the days of the B...

Michael Wert is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Specializing in early modern and modern Japa...

Nicky Harman looks at translating tools, and it's more fascinating than you'd think. It’s not often that I, as a translator, get...