Jazz Messenger - Lovely article by Murakami on how and why he started writing (from the NY Times)
Books to furnish a room - Excellent bibilography from Trapnel
Nice piece in design:related on the Knopf cover designs John Gall and Chip Kidd
The Reception of Murakami Haruki (村上春樹Cun-shang Chun-shu) in Taiwan” Abstract by FUJII Shozo (Tokyo University)
Haruki Murakami and His Generation - how Japanese cultural values have changed with reference to Murakami's Japan Times April 2008 interview -
by Marie Mockett
Memory, hybridity, and creative alliance in Haruki Murakami's fiction. by Amy Ty Lai - This essay explores the use of animals in Haruki Murakami's fiction, where animals serve as the emblem of selfhood, where human-animal hybrids manifest the fragmented self, and where becoming-animal inspires a creative process in which humans can fare better. (registration required)
Profiles in Literature: Haruki Murakami - Excellent Docudharma article by: pico
Japan's Prodigal Novelist Returns by Bryan Walsh from Time Asia
The Absurd: A comparison of Haruki Murakami and David Lynch
Lin Shaohua: Haruki Murakami as Warrior - interview with Lin Shaohua (Murakami's Chinese translation)
Time, the Body and Non-Japanese in Murakami’s Works by Atsuko Handa
Step Design July 2007 issue contains an interview with Vintage designer John Gall, who has designed some of my favourite Murakami covers
A literary tour of Japan: Haruki Murakami's fiction by Peter Valelly
GETTING TO THE PULP OF HARUKI MURAKAMI’S
NORWEGIAN WOOD:
TRANSLATABILITY AND THE ROLE OF POPULAR CULTURE - a thesis submitted by JACQUELYN L. ZUROMSKI at the University of Central Florida
NEGOTIATING PLACE: MULTISCAPES AND NEGOTIATION IN HARUKI MURAKAMI’S NORWEGIAN WOOD - a thesis submitted by KEVIN DAWSON GLADDING at the University of Central Florida
Realy nice article: Literary Tourism and Entering the World - how living in or visiting Japan has affected their reading of Murakami
On the Globalization of Literature: Haruki Murakami, Tim O’Brien, and Raymond Carver
by Reiichi Miura from the electronic book review - Reiichi Miura considers the worldwide reception of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and charts a course for a fiction where nationalism loses relevance.
Return to What One Imagines to Be There: Masculinity and Racial Otherness in Haruki Murakami's Writings about China - Lo, Kwai-Cheung examines how Murakami deals with issues of masculinity and national character in opposition to an entity that is not Western but Asian.
Jazz and Cigarettes - a blog containing excellent translations of Murakami's articles
Julianexpat talks about his passion for Haruki Murakami from Expat Culture
Articles reporting Murakami's former editor, Akira Yasuhara, who sold his manuscripts without permission. Japan Times and Bungaku (Japanese only) and pictures of the manuscripts and Murakami's article from the mind of a strategist and good round up from Long Tail World
enotes.com presents an excellent overview of Murakami's career through 1999
The pain of living in two meaningless worlds - echoes of Baathism in the books of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami from newsabah.com
Interesting brief article on Murakami's American and Japanese cultural references
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami wins Kafka award from ABC Australia
TRACKING MURAKAMI - A brief, but interesting sumary of some main themes running through Murakami's work by Alyson Roux
Undergraduate dissertation, The Use of Certain Fantastic Concepts in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki by Gareth Edwards
Why I love Haruki Murakami, Tania Branigan, Tuesday July 22, 2003, The Guardian
The order of chaos, The Elephant Vanishes dramitisation at the Barbican, London, Saturday June 21, 2003,
Garbage dissect our modern age - tapping into the melancholy of Murakami's existential anti-heroes
Break on through - The Threepenny review by Francie Lin
Pop Master, Japan's literati may sneer at Haruki Murakami, but his latest novel has sold 460,000 copies in two months—and he's revered overseas BY VELISARIOS KATTOULAS/TOKYO Nov 25, 2002 Time Asia
Confessions of a Murakami junkie, The Times 1st Dec 2002
Murakami Roundtable from the Quarterly Conversation
* Essays
* Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Reviews
* A Short Guide to Murakami's Short Fiction
* The Murakami Dictionary
Outside looking in by Sam North - excellent introductory essay
Dancing as fast as he can by Sarah Write - Boston Magazine - January 1994
HARUKI MURAKAMI: TERRORISM BEFORE WTC - Holt Uncensored Sept 2001
The Elusive Murakami - From the August 2001 issue of World Press Review (VOL. 48, No. 8).
A Japanese Novelist in Search of Lost Ideals by Katherine Knorr - International Herald Tribune
Inner Space - The wondrous interior worlds of Haruki Murakami Philidelphia City Paper - Dec 1997
Big in Japan - Metropolis Magazine
Spiritual Quests in Contemporary Japanese Writers before and after the Aum Affair
CNN - Japanese writer Murakami probes soul's 'dark kingdom'(November 24, 2000)
Tracing the Contours of the Postmodern in Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Deng Liu
An overview of HM's work
Haruki Murakami Does Seattle (review of Seattle book reading)
Random House's Meet the Author - good short biography
Presents from the dead - excellent overview of Murakami's early work by Kato Koiti
A Voice from Postmodern Japan by Yoshio Iwamoto
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