The great Japanese ironist Jun’ichirō Tanizaki was born in 1886 into an old Tokyo merchant family. His father was a businessman who failed over and over again, and the young man was raised in a ...

The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa; Near Distance by Hanna Stoltenberg; Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye; The Siren’s Lament: Essential Stories by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki The Living and the ...

Nick Luscombe explores the sonic possibilities of In Praise of Shadows, an essay by the Japanese literary titan Jun’ichir Tanizaki. Inspired by the work, Nick creates a journey in sound from modern ...

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 ...

Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday). Today’s readings: 1 Samuel 16:1b-13a, Psalm 23, Ephesians 5:8-14, John 9:1-41 In his classic essay In Praise of Shadows (1933), Jun’ichirō Tanizaki reflects on ...