Various Youths is a collection of literary criticism by Ken Hirano. Reading writers of modern Japanese literature, it examines Hirano’s central themes of art and life, politics and literature, within history.

A critic who shaped postwar literature rereads the youth of modern Japanese literature.

Ano Hi Kono Hi gathers Kazuo Ozaki’s essayistic prose. Calmly tracing personal memories and encounters, it preserves the texture of time characteristic of a writer associated with the I-novel tradition.

It quietly follows daily memories and gently brings the time of a life into view.