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  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    Time Traveling Without Changing the Present – A Coffee Shop That Hurts, but Heals Us There is a small, timeless coffee shop in a basement on a narrow side street: it has no windows, no AC, and none of the clocks on the walls show the correct time. It is not a particularly popular establishment,…

  • Convenience Store Woman: The Freedom of the Rulebook

    Convenience Store Woman: The Freedom of the Rulebook

    Is Sayaka Murata’s heroine the antidote for societal expectations? First published in English in 2018, Convenience Store Woman has become a world-famous novel by author Sayaka Murata. Its main character, Keiko Furukura is a 36-year-old woman who has been working as a convenience store for 18 years now, part-time, living alone and perfectly content with…

  • The Women

    The Women

    Some call her work a masterpiece of historical fiction; others dismiss it as “trauma porn.” Is her latest bestseller, The Women, a powerful tribute to the forgotten nurses of Vietnam or just a high-stakes soap opera? Reading the criticism about Kristin Hannah’s books, I can see that she produces divisive work: some like her novels…