Rereadings: AC Grayling on a fine study of Japanese aesthetics In Praise of Shadows Junichiro Tanizaki First published in Japanese 1933. English translation, Leete's Island Books 1977 In his ...

JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI is praised by some Japanese as the greatest writer among them, damned by others as a sentimental reactionary. He is in any case extremely famous, and one can hope that some day he ...

In Japan, there is a strong tradition of memoirs of writers being penned by family members, providing essential information about the writer’s domestic set-up and unvarnished personal foibles. For ...

For book lovers, combining this love with exploring Japan can be a challenge. But some places have a rich literary history that makes this connection easy. Kobe and its neighbor Ashiya have ...

Junichiro Tanizaki is best known for his novels, “Naomi” and “The Makioka Sisters,” and is widely considered one of Japan’s greatest writers of modern literature. This collection of his early stories ...

FACTS and statistics struggle to capture the emotional effect of sudden social change on the everyman. That is where fiction excels, and no one chronicles that feeling of the world moving underfoot ...

I’ve never read a Tanizaki novel that was absent of merit or one that I did not enjoy. His breezy style, coupled with his moments of humor, make all of his books entertaining on one level, yet he also ...

In 2013 I had walked anxiously around in South Delhi by my old neighborhood and didn't see anything recognizable. We want to celebrate and find out more about the characters driving the renaissance of ...