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Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Rachel Cusk’s pirated works used to train AI

Works by thousands of authors also including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami and Jonathan Franzan fed into models run by firms including Meta and Bloomberg

The Guardian - UK

Play the Classic RPG That Inspired a Cult Icon on Switch Online ASAP

'Earthbound Beginnings' will feel very simple to the modern player, but manages to squeeze a lot of charm out of its simplicity.

Inverse

Where to start with: Haruki Murakami

The acclaimed Japanese author’s deceptively simple writing combines fantasy and reality in stories of everything from missing cats to dystopian histories via fantasy thrillers and meditations on love. Then he told us about running

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Chris Hewitt: Some bestsellers, like 'Lessons in Chemistry,' deserve the love they get from readers

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‘Tokyo would lose its soul’: anger over plans to redevelop historic city park

Campaigners say turning Meiji Jingu Gaien into a commercial hub will destroy 1,000 trees and area’s architectural heritage

The Guardian - UK

Haruki Murakami pleads developers not to destroy the place that inspired him to become a writer

It was at a baseball stadium in April 1978, while watching a match that bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami decided to become a writer. "The satisfying crack when the bat met the ball resounded throughout Jingu Stadium. Scattered applause rose around me. In that instant, for no reason and on…

The Times of India

Haruki Murakami pleads for keeping Tokyo park and baseball stadium that inspired his writing

Author Haruki Murakami says he's strongly opposed to the redevelopment of a Tokyo park district that would remove his favorite jogging path and tear down the baseball stadium where he was inspired to become a novelist

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The best films of 2023 so far

Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date

The Guardian - UK

Author Haruki Murakami says pandemic, war in Ukraine create walls that divide people

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami says walls are increasingly built and dividing people and countries as fear and skepticism flourish following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

Haruki Murakami announced as Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for literature 2023 winner

Bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami's books have been translated into over 40 languages, and he is widely read across the world. And now, Murakami has been announced as the winner of Princess of Asturias Award for literature 2023.

The Times of India

Bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami wins Spanish Asturias prize for literature

Bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has won this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for literature

The Independent UK

In new book, Murakami explores walled city and shadows

Haruki Murakami wrote a story of a walled city four decades ago

The Independent UK

Manga-nifique! How France became obsessed with Japanese anime

In the 1970s, giant robot cartoons sparked a love affair with French fans (including Emmanuel Macron) – now the country is the world’s largest manga importer, and home to a new Murakami film

The Guardian - UK

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman review – Murakami’s surreal tales around a Tokyo earthquake

The seductively quirky sad-serious tone of the author is evident as a constellation of characters try and save the city – including a lost cat and a giant talkative frog

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Murakami's 1st novel in 6 years to hit stores in April

A new Haruki Murakami novel will be published in April and the publisher is saying little about it except that the Japanese manuscript is around 1,200 pages and the plot involves “a story that had long been sealed.”

The Times of India

Haruki Murakami's new novel to be published in April, after a gap of six years

International best-selling Japanese author Haruki Murakami's last book 'Killing Commendatore' was released in 2017. Now, after a brief hiatus of six years, Murakami's new novel is all set to be published in April this year!

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Murakami's first novel in 6 years to go on sale

The first novel by author Haruki Murakami in six years will go on sale on April 13, publisher Shinchosha Publishing Co. announced on its website on Wednesday.

The Times of India

Micro review: ‘Novelist as a Vocation’ by Haruki Murakami

International bestselling author Haruki Murakami's collection of personal essays ‘Novelist as a Vocation’ was published in November 2022. In this book, Murakami reflects upon his writing career and gives the readers a glimpse of his thoughts.

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The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The End Of Nightwork by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce and Alone With You In The Ether by Olivie Blake.

The Guardian - UK

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami review – lessons in simplicity

The Japanese writer lets readers inside his own head in an insightful collection of essays on his work and methods

The Guardian - UK

Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami review – the secrets behind the literary phenomenon

The celebrated novelist offers insights into his ways of working, his direct style and the moments that shaped him in this intriguing book on writing

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Jazz legend Yamashita reprises 1969 'gate-crash' concert

Jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita performed at Waseda University on Tuesday, reprising a concert he gave there during a student riot in July 1969.

The Independent UK

Director of 'Drive My Car' surprised by Oscar, popularity

Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi says he was surprised by the international popularity of his Oscar-winning film “Drive My Car,” but attributes it to the universality of the short story by Haruki Murakami on which it is based

The Independent UK

Murakami plays antiwar songs on radio to protest Ukraine war

Playing James Taylor’s “Never Die Young” and going back to songs that marked the antiwar movement in the 1960s, Japanese author Haruki Murakami added his voice to protests against the war in Ukraine with a special edition of his Tokyo radio show

The Times of India

From Haruki Murakami to Orhan Pamuk, quotes on colours by popular authors

Holi, the festival of colours, is here. And so, on this occasion, here we share some quotes by popular writers like Haruki Murakami, Orhan Pamuk, Anthony Doerr and Cassandra Clare on colours-- from the emotions they depict to how they are perceived. Read on!

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