Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan Volume 7

Since its first issue in 2011, Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan has showcased the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Monkey Business features the short fiction and poetry of writers such as Hideo Furukawa, Mina Ishikawa, Hiromi Ito, Mieko Kawakami, Sachiko Kishimoto, Hiromi Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and Yoko Ogawa; interviews and essays by writers such as Haruki Murakami; new translations of the work of earlier writers such as Rampo Edogawa, Kafu Nagai, and Soseki Natsume; and graphic stories by Satoshi Kitamura and the Brother and Sister Nishioka.

Now celebrating its seventh year, Issue 7 of Monkey Business features stories by some of the best contemporary literary voices in Japan today, including Hideo Furukawa, Hiromi Ito, Hiroko Oyamada, and Aoko Matsuda. Canadian and American authors Helen Guri and Brian Evenson also join this amazing line up, and amongst the pages of the latest Monkey also lies a graphic narrative by Satoshi Kitamura, and an interview between Monkey man Motoyuki Shibata and Haruki Murakami. These and many more of the best contemporary voices of Japanese and American literature make up the lyrical and literary prose of this newest issue of Monkey Business.