Book Reviews
Spring 1963
A Key but No Lock
After The Banquet by Yukio Mishima. Translated by Donald Keene. Alfred A. Knopf, $4.00. The novel at hand is a roman à clef—and yet somehow it is not. One thinks […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Summer 1961
The Business at Hand
June 20 Dear Sir: The gloomy rains continue, and things feel damp and clammy to the touch. I trust that your efforts to keep your spirits from flagging have met […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1960
Redskins in Japan: I. Through Foreign Eyes
[This is the first in a series of articles devoted to a discussion of American writing and how it is read and thought about in various foreign countries. The purpose […]
Fiction
Winter 1981
A Shoal of Brine Shrimp
Translated from Japanese. Ryōji, in his second year of junior high school, was playing with a device that had come with a science magazine. When he touched red and […]
Fiction
Autumn 1979
Daphne
From the Japanese. I think it must have been when, years ago, Mr Odera was living in a large thatch-roofed house somewhere in the suburbs. Out for a walk one […]