At one point in Haruki Murakami's new novel, we are shown a man wearing a mask and are told, "The mask possesses equal levels of sorcery and functionality." It's a characteristic that might also ...

All of Murakami's books are quiet and often dreamlike, but this is the quietest of all. If the action described above sounds busy, remember that it's spread out over nearly 200 pages.

There are many reasons authors are inspired to write a novel, but for popular US- based Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami, it happened while he watched a baseball game in 1978. Since then he's ...

NORRIS: The novel is "After Dark" by Haruki Murakami. Our reviewer, Alan Cheuse, teaches writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He's the editor of the new anthology, ...

After Dark Haruki Murakami, , trans. from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. . Knopf, $22 (191pp) ... Cummins’s impressive debut novel (after the collection If the Body Allows It) ...

"After Dark," Murakami's new short novel, beautifully translated by Jay Rubin, is not a mind-bender, but it is not a straight narrative, either. Nothing is simple in Murakami's world.

(“After Dark” by Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $22.95). Haruki Murakami alternates capacious novels that move in and out of the material and Shinto spirit worlds with low-key, quieter meditations ...

For many South Koreans who went to university during the 1990s, Haruki Murakami's books and their characters are stamped in their memories. His signature book ``Norwegian Wood'' particularly ...

His most recent book to be translated to English, After Dark-- which actually came out in Japan in 2004 -- has Murakami's trademark surreal style. For the Book Show, reviewer Anna Hedigan has been ...