Why I Read Haruki Murakami. Memory, modern society, and his…, by Xi Chen
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For me, conversations about Murakami inevitably contain some variation of this sentence
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Corona ni Makeruna] Haruki Murakami Goes On Air, Int'l Film Festival Goes Online
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My Conversation With Haruki Murakami Never Really Ends - InsideHook
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Corona ni Makeruna] Haruki Murakami Goes On Air, Int'l Film Festival Goes Online
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir (2009) by Haruki Murakami & the Duty of Being a True Novelist
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A Portrait of Twenty-First-Century Seoul: An Interview with Sang Young Park, Author of Love in the Big City - Asymptote Blog
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A Paltry Little Scrap of the Past: Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police - Asymptote Blog
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Memory as Political: On Raja Shehadeh's We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir - Asymptote Blog
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Haruki Murakami recounts late father's involvement in aggression war - CGTN
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Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey,” by Haruki Murakami
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When Shadows Evade Shadows: Wen-chi Li on Ko-hua Chen and Taiwan's Tongzhi Literature - Asymptote Blog
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The Making of the Murakami Industry: An Interview with David Karashima - Asymptote Blog
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Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey,” by Haruki Murakami