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“Heaven” is a coming-of-age tale about that dehumanizing middle-school phase and how hellacious it can be for nonconformists under the gun of bullies. It’s also one of the most anticipated Japanese novels of 2021 to hit the English-speaking world.  The beginning —and much of— Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Heaven” is indeed hell for the narrator Eyes, so nicknamed because of a lazy eye as a result of strabismus. He initially comes across as being a girl since Eyes doesn’t warrant he/him references or emit a single gender-conforming male vibe until… later. Eyes serves as a punc...

Where Every Coupling Depends on Lies, and Men Are Aliens Credit...Pia-Mélissa Laroche By Catherine Lacey TERMINAL BOREDOM By Izumi Suzuki Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi and Helen O’Horan In Izumi Suzuki’s story “You May Dream,” translated from the Japanese by David Boyd, a young woman concerned about a government lottery to cryogenically freeze citizens as a method of population control asks a plaintive question: “But haven’t you ever thought about … our dignity as human beings?” The reply comes quickly: “Nope, not once.” T...

Ask Iwata, the newly-translated Viz book, is full of quiet thoughts and off-the-cuff observations from former Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata.

Izumi Suzuki, a prolific writer of speculative science fiction and a counterculture figure in the 1970s and ’80s, has gone largely overlooked by modern readers — until now.

Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense of the true scope of the peril. Is the only way to safety to follow in Silvina’s footsteps? Is it t...