The concluding volume of Yoko Tawada’s linked long-novel trilogy, following companions who travel the Baltic in search of a lost homeland.

Carrying language across borders, the companions set out to sea.

A nonfiction study that traces testimonies and records from wartime broadcasters to examine how radio became entangled with war.

What did radio transmit, and what did it leave unsaid?

An Iwanami Shinsho title that uses the question of why the brain makes mistakes to explain creativity and recovery.

Mistakes are not a flaw in the brain but part of how it works.

A seven-volume Iwanami series based on Tamajima Michiji’s record of audiences with Emperor Showa, tracing the relationship between the emperor and postwar Japan.

A record too large to fit into a single book captures the texture of postwar history.

A scholarly study that traces postwar Japanese book design and typographic culture through Kohei Sugiura and phototypesetting.

The shape of letters reflects the technology and aesthetics of an era.