Haruki Murakami

The Hiroshima Carp won their first baseball league pennant in twenty-five years the day my girlfriend and I visited Kobe City. The news hardly blew us away. Had it not happened however, one hot-dog chef would not have stepped out of his bar…

This week, the UK lost Marmite, Ched Evans was acquitted, and the budget was announced. Bob Dylan also won the Nobel Prize for Literature and divided the world. #ChedEvans acquitted of rape charges In 2011, Premier League footballer Ched…

Haruki Murakami is one of those writers who can be best described as an odd auld creature. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, it is hard to figure out why he has not yet been a winner - in lieu of the likes of recent…

Haruki Murakami Let it be known that Japanese writer Haruki Murakami does more than write about cats. While accepting the ‘Welt Literature Prize’ in Berlin last week, he acknowledged the pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong and made a…