Jun’ichiro Tanizaki: 友田と松永の話 [The Story of Tomoda and Matsunaga]

The latest addition to my website is Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's 友田と松永の話 [The Story of Tomoda and Matsunaga]. The narrator, a well-known novelist, receives a letter from Shige Matsunaga, asking him to…

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DSK

If you know anything about French politics, you will know that the title of this post - DSK - stands for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man who famously had two of…

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Ukraine

John Dugdale, in the Guardian, has produced an interesting list of writers born in Ukraine but not usually associated with that country . It includes the likes of Gogol, Conrad,…

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