Mukudori Nikki brings together Tan Onuma's essayistic precision and fictional powers of observation. It draws out loneliness and quiet humor from the small details of everyday life.

A quietly controlled book that looks deeply at the shades of ordinary time.

Nagatsuka Takashi Sobyo is Kei Wakasugi's biographical study of the poet and novelist Takashi Nagatsuka. It layers the writer's life and literary background as a portrait in prose.

A portrait of Takashi Nagatsuka seen through both his life and his writing.

Ikutatsu Fu Den: Sono Shi to Ai to Nihon is Takeo Oda's biography of the modern Chinese writer Yu Dafu, centered on his relationship with Japan. Poetry, love, and displacement are read through both literary history and personal history.

A biography that connects Yu Dafu's literature with his experience of Japan.