Lovers of Hate' director Bryan Poyser's Tribeca feature 'Leads' follows a middle aged acting teacher (Heather Kafka) terrified to be past her peak.

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There really are a lot of cats in Japanese fiction, but what are the cultural and symbolic trends behind this? And why is it ...

Haruki Murakami’s novels slow time and quiet the noise. His stories teach us how to embrace stillness, solitude, and the beauty of doing absolutely nothing., Books News - Times Now ...

Depp may be a Gen Z film icon, but her literary tastes skew a bit older -- including several classics from this renown author.

Murakami called himself “ [the] outcast of the Japanese literary world” even though his books sell very well in the country. Outcast he may be, but for many, he has led the charge of Japanese ...

Notable example: Kafka on the Shore, where characters drift between metaphysical realms, talking cats, and prophecies — all while dealing with real-life trauma and loneliness. 2. He captures ...

His characters do things without reasoning or explanation, emulating a more truthful human psyche. For example, in his novel Kafka on the Shore, a supernatural shapeshifter takes on the form of ...

Characters that readers of Kafka on the Shore and his other books will find familiar—a gentle loner, a melancholy girl, an odd librarian—wonder whether their environment is the key to ...

When I first picked up “Kafka on the Shore ... it without spoiling it. All I can say is that “The City and its Uncertain Walls” eludes classification; whether the novel is a love story, a fantasy tale ...

Kaiju No. 8 gave anime some of the most beautiful main characters last year ... was one of the most asked by fans. All that was shown was the effect of Kafka Hibino consuming the Flying Larvae ...

But Kafka doubted his writing abilities. In 1924, he died of laryngeal tuberculosis only a few weeks before his 41st birthday. He had previously instructed his friend to burn all his writings ...