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COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami, Alfred A. Knopf, 386 pp., $29.95. Dig a little and you'll find that most people have some kind of irrational fear and plenty ...

In 2012, the New York Times published an illustration by Grant Snider called “Haruki Murakami Bingo.” Each square was filled with one of Murakami’s well-documented leitmotifs: “something vanishing,” ...

“Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” performs the most delicate balancing act between what many of Murakami’s devoted readers describe as the two fundamental categories of Murakamian ...

The last time Haruki Murakami wrote a book, it was 1157 pages long. With 1Q84, Murakami seemed determined to expand the possibilities of serious literature. In a profile of Murakami for The New York ...

Haruki Murakami’s “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” begins with a simple premise: A Tokyo railroad engineer, the Tsukuru Tazaki of the novel’s title, unable to get over the summer ...

Haruki Murakami is unique among contemporary novelists insofar as he has somehow managed to remain a cult writer while selling millions of copies of his books both in his native Japan and in the many ...

The "pilgrimage" of Haruki Murakami's latest novel, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," translates literally as a "reverent perambulation." In this traditional Japanese practice, ...

In his new novel, Haruki Murakami steps back into the remote, mysterious realm of his celebrated classic 'Norwegian Wood’ – and loses his way Haruki Murakami’s new novel returns to the territory of ...