Getting Oriented: A Novel about Japan

 Unlike much recent Japanese fiction in translation— The Factory, Terminal Boredom, Slow Boat — The Woman in the Purple Skirt  takes place i...

The book begins, "I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there's the next, and as you go on turning pag...

Desperate for more to read and having read through the pile of library books I'd checked out as the library was closing indefinitely beh...

I went to KEEP twice in 1957. My father as an active member of St. Paul's East Cleveland Episcopal Church had written to tell me about t...

The picture below is from a book published in 1969,  The Road to KEEP: The Story of Paul Rusch in Japan  by Elizabeth Anne Hemphill. In...

Thanks to my interest in all things Japanese, I picked up a copy of Hillary Raphael's 2004 novel I [Love]   Lord Buddha  at a book sale ...

"Around 1916, I decided to devote myself to the study of the Oriental literatures," writes Jorge Luis Borges in a fat collection o...