A critical biography that follows the latter half of Osamu Dazai's life, from his meeting with Michiko to his death at the Tamagawa Aqueduct. It reads his work alongside his private life, tracing the movement of love, faith, and self-destruction.

A biography that illuminates Dazai's private face and literary core through the arc of his later years.

A study of artists under Stalin's Soviet regime as they confronted power, censorship, and terror. Moving across Russian literature, music, and art, it interprets an age in which creation was pinned to politics.

An intellectual history of artists torn between art and dictatorship.