Murakami romanticises solitude, turns the mundane mystical, and remains the Nobel’s most faithful almost-winner.

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 ...

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 ...

I'm personally a big fan of Haruki Murakami's work (Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of those books I re-read every 18 months or so), so my perspective is tainted, but I tend to not think of his book ...

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 ...

Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard. By David Brooks Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. “The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s ...

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 ...