haruki murakami

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Haruki Murakami’s ‘First Person Singular’ a perplexing disappointment

Lily Zhou
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April 27, 2021
Arts & Life
Leah Chase reviews Haruki Murakami's novel about a man who decides to get to the bottom of his mysterious expulsion from his college friend group decades prior. (Photo: Yuko Shimizu)

Disappearances unexplained in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Leah Chase
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May 20, 2020
Arts & Life
Haruki Murakami's novel alternates between two worlds, one an imaginary walled town, the other an almost imaginary Tokyo, all while exploring the nature of freedom. (Photo: Micah Lidberg)

Haruki Murakami’s involuntary freedom

Owen Shen
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May 18, 2020
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Roberta Gonzalez-Marquez reviews Haruki Murakami's newest short story that deals with youth, romance, and suicide (Photo: The Beatles)

Youth, death and Murakami’s Beatles

Roberta Gonzalez Marquez
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March 2, 2020
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Owen Shen argues that Haruki Murakami's popular novel should be celebrated for its existentialist themes, not merely for its status as a coming-of-age classic (Image Source: Vintage Publishing)

‘Norwegian Wood,’ nihilistic world

Owen Shen
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Feb. 27, 2020
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Yukiko Motoya's "The Lonesome Bodybuilder" paints domestic life with a magical realist coat, exploring the lives of characters isolated from society or caught in the classic battle between the sexes. (Photo: Maudlin House)

The lonesome storybuilder

Scott Stevens
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Feb. 4, 2020
The Stanford Daily

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