Earlier this month Kodansha, one of Japan’s largest and most prestigious publishers, released The Line, Retsu, a provocative new novel by the award-winning Fuminori Nakamura… Read more »
A mini television drama will be released next month in Japan by TV Asahi, a major Japanese national broadcaster linked to Japan’s most prestigious national… Read more »
‘From the first sentence—“Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life”—Nakamura plays tricks on the reader, the narrator, and even the notion of… Read more »
On 17 October the Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Japan’s major national newspapers, published a profile of the London-based independent publisher Red Circle Authors, and the… Read more »
Oggi, one of Italy’s oldest and most popular weekly magazines, which is modelled on the American magazine Life, launched a special Italian language edition of… Read more »
The Japan Times, Japan’s largest and oldest English language daily newspaper, has reviewed Backlight, a new work by the Akutagawa-nominated author Kanji Hanawa. According to the review by the… Read more »
In an exclusive interview with The Japan Times, Japan’s largest and oldest English language daily newspaper, Red Circle founders Koji Chikatani and Richard Nathan outline… Read more »