The faces behind Japan’s post-war turbulence, restlessness and extreme passion. In the first part of our series, focusing on ...

The late Izumi Suzuki was a hostess, model and pioneering writer. Her novel Set My Heart on Fire reveals her strange and dark sensibility ...

There is a wealth of classic literature, from Mary Shelley and Jane Austen to Nick Joaquin and Haruki Murakami, that readers can re-read or begin reading this Christmas and beyond.

Sake exports, mostly to the U.S. and China, rake in over $265 million a year, according to the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers ...

From new novels, nonfiction books and celeb memoirs, find your next fall read here Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

Let’s rewind to the 11th century. The first novel The Tale of The Genji was penned by a woman, Murasaki Shikibu. Maya highlights that the author wrote in Japanese, even as Mandarin ruled the ...

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The first novel is set in the late 19th century in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward, Canada, where an 11-year-old orphan girl named Anne Shirley is sent by mistake to middle-aged ...

The novel is narrated in first person from Noa’s point of view, which adds to its voyeuristic tingle. That said, the subplots intended to add dimension and texture to the main characters — for ...

Novel foods are any food that was not used for human consumption to a significant degree within the United Kingdom (UK) or the European Union (EU) before 15 May 1997. This means that the foods don’t ...

The novel “Interior Chinatown” is formatted like a script, taking its title from the screenwriting convention of beginning scenes by indicating whether they take place indoors or out.

The movie and Broadway musical are based on Maguire’s 1995 novel ‘Wicked,’ itself an adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial ...