South of the Border, West of the Sun: Longing for something that never was
Haruki Murakami’s 1992 novel, South of the Border, West of the Sun, offers a tale of two childhood sweethearts and the joyous disbelief...
The WOMAN IN THE DUNES: AN ENSNARED IDEALISM
Is Kobo Abe’s strange, gripping novel The Woman in the Dunes, a testament to human predicament, perhaps a parable of damnation and...
Thinking one step ahead
"I'm always thinking about the next thing. So I don't enjoy anything." Subtle words for a feeling that I think we’ve each trawled over....