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Two great books from our Words without Borders Book Review section: Amélie Nothomb’s “Life Form” and Yoko Ogawa’s “Revenge”. 

A video about truck driver Motoyuki Yokoi by the Japanese photographer Tatsuki Masaru, music by Yamauchi Toshiharu. Come see Masaru’s cover for our August 2012: New Writing from Japan, Part II Issue of Words without Borders. 

Words without Borders and Joanna Smith Rakoff invite you to join us for drinks (free Asahi beer while it lasts!) and a short reading to celebrate our July and August double issue of new Japanese writing. 

Another clip from the Japanese film “Install” from the Wataya Risa story of the same name. Come read an excerpt of “Install” in the August 2012: New Writing from Japan, Part II Issue of Words without Borders. 

The trailer for the Japanese film “Install” from the Wataya Risa story of the same name. Come read an excerpt of “Install” in the August 2012: New Writing from Japan, Part II Issue of Words without Borders. 

The trailer for the Korean film “Howling” based on ”The Hunter” by Asa Nonami (in Korean). Come read an excerpt from her story “Face” in the August 2012: New Writing from Japan, Part II Issue of Words without Borders. 

Images of post quake Kamaishi by Masaru Tatsuki. Come see his cover photograph of Mt. Osore for the August 2012: New Writing from Japan, Part II of Words without Borders. 

A Kawakami Mieko interview with Michael Emmerich translating. Come read Meiko’s fiction piece “Breasts and Eggs” and Emmerich’s non-fiction “The Real, The Familiar: An Introduction” in the August 2012: New Writing from Japan Issue, Part II of Words without Borders. 

Kawakami Hiromi reads in a Bits Magazine video (in Japanese). Come see her fiction piece “Record of a Night too Brief” in the July 2012: New Writing from Japan Issue of Words without Borders. 

A trailer for the film “La Vie Murmurée” about writer Osamu Dazai (in Japanese and French). Come read Mythili G. Rao’s review of Dazai’s novel “School Girl”, written in 1939 and just translated into English for the first time, in the Book Reviews section of Words without Borders.