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Eight translators reveal their top Japanese books that English readers have yet to enjoy.

The best fiction, nonfiction, history and sci-fi books Scientific American staff read in 2023

The Japanese novelist’s dark-hearted comedies are at once unhinged and brilliant.

Itamar Vieira Junior's Crooked Plow, Miroslav Krleža's On the Edge of Reason, and Maru Ayase's The Forest Brims Over all emerge from acts of rebellion.

None of This Is True

From Argentinian horror to Japanese thrillers, under-35s are reading more internationally than ever before, with iconic covers becoming status symbols and fans swapping their discoveries online

Though her fiction retains elements of future conjecture and civilizational prognosis, like punk rock itself, Izumi Suzuki is more committed to the sci-fi genre as an edgy social and emotional analysis tool.

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Little do English-language readers know, the author of "The Rope Artist" and other critically acclaimed books writes on much more than crime.