Japanese author Haruki Murakami's quote highlights that travel cannot lead to self-escape. His works explore inner journeys ...

In a new story collection, "Men Without Women," the writer examines how his characters cope—or fail to—in the wake of loss. It’s rare, though not impossible, to connect emotionally with one of Haruki ...

Haruki Murakami is a widely known Japanese novelist who is known for blending surrealism, introspection, and emotional depth.

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 ...

Haruki Murakami has fallen down a well. His middle-aged, perfectly ordinary, pasta-cooking protagonists often end up at the bottoms of wells, trapped for days like the protagonist of “Killing ...

In the title story for his new collection, “Men Without Women,” Haruki Murakami has his unnamed, middle-aged narrator receive a phone call at 3 in the morning informing him that his ex-girlfriend M.

If you've ever read Japanese author Haruki Murakami's magical realist fiction — filled with characters like a six-foot-tall "superfrog," a human data processor named Calcutec, and a cat killer who ...

Renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami expressed joy with how several of his short stories were adapted in American director Pierre Földes’ animated film “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, adding he ...

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 ...

Making of ‘Drive My Car’: How Ryusuke Hamaguchi Turned a Haruki Murakami Short Story Into a Three-Hour Drama About Making Art Amid Grief Adapting Murakami is no small task, but Japanese auteur ...

Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami told his alma mater Tuesday that he was far from being a model scholar, as he collected an honorary degree in a rare public appearance. "It feels kind of ...