From the October 2019 Issue Our Man in Japan This Great Stage of Fools: An Anthology of Uncollected Writings By Alan Booth (edited by Timothy Harris) LR
From the October 2019 Issue Our Man in Japan This Great Stage of Fools: An Anthology of Uncollected Writings By Alan Booth (Edited by Timothy Harris) LR
From the June 2019 Issue For Whom the Bell Tolls Dandelions By Yasunari Kawabata (Translated by Michael Emmerich) LR
From the April 2018 Issue A Single Woman Territory of Light By Yuko Tsushima (Translated by Geraldine Harcourt) LR
From the April 2016 Issue In the Shadow of Fukushima Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey By Marie Mutsuki Mockett LR
From the March 2015 Issue Things that Change Shape in the Night The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore By Michael Dylan Foster LR
From the August 2011 Issue East Meets West Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of US–Japan Relations By Michael R Auslin LR
From the December 2010 Issue Flower & Willow Butterfly’s Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture By Yoko Kawaguchi LR
From the July 2012 Issue Artists of the Floating World Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan By Timon Screech LR
From the July 2013 Issue Kabuki Nights An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan By G G Rowley LR
From the December 2013 Issue Springing to Attention Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art By Timothy Clark, C Andrew Gerstle, Aki Ishigami & Akiko Yano (edd) Japanese Erotic Art: The Hidden World of Shunga By Ofer Shagan
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is practically a byword for old-fashioned Victorian grandeur, rarely pictured without a cravat and a serious beard.
Seamus Perry tries to picture him as a younger man.
Seamus Perry - Before the Beard
Seamus Perry: Before the Beard - The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
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Novelist Muriel Spark had a tongue that could produce both sugar and poison. It’s no surprise, then, that her letters make for a brilliant read.
@claire_harman considers some of the most entertaining.
Claire Harman - Fighting Words
Claire Harman: Fighting Words - The Letters of Muriel Spark, Volume 1: 1944-1963 by Dan Gunn
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Of all the articles I’ve published in recent years, this is *by far* my favourite.
✍️ On childhood, memory, and the sea - for @Lit_Review :
https://literaryreview.co.uk/flotsam-and-jetsam