OVIEDO, Spain--For Japanese author Haruki Murakami ... In his memoir on being a writer, “Novelist As a Vocation,” Murakami lays out his theory of “novelistic intelligence,” whereby ...

ome authors find transcendent limits by taking acid and staring at curtains, but Haruki Murakami ran 62 miles and felt like his body had “passed through a stone wall.” In his first memoir, the ex-jazz ...

In an article for Tufts Now, Hirata discusses how Murakami’s novels provide a solace for aging. “I think Haruki has the sense that we exist as a fragment of something, and we are much more ...

What’s true for legends is true of Haruki Murakami’s stories, which often draw comparisons to Kafka’s. In Murakami’s 15th novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” just published with ...