Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan Volume 1

Monkey Business is the in-translation offspring of the Tokyo-based magazine MONKEY, which was founded in 2008 by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most highly regarded men of letters.

Monkey Business showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. It aims to translate and present a wide array of established and emerging authors. Issue 1 includes an interview with Haruki Murakami, fiction by Hideo Furukawa, Hiromi Kawakami, and Yoko Ogawa, a manga interpretation of Kafka’s A Country Doctor by the Brother and Sister Nishioka, and many more of the best contemporary voices that Japan has to offer.