A historical novel set in a small 18th-century Belgian town, tracing a woman’s life as it moves between faith and community.

A single life takes shape between prayer and everyday life.

A play first presented by the theater company Shiroyagi no Kai, using misaligned everyday conversation to reveal the unease of contemporary society.

Conversation on stage lets the cracks in society seep through.

A long nonfiction work that follows Kazuhiro Nishikawa’s journey and portrays his obsession with the unknown and his sense of freedom.

The track of a traveler who kept walking an untraveled path.

A critical study that traces the Japanese literary lineage beneath Kenzaburo Oe’s work through close reading.

Oe’s riddles are reread from the ground of Japanese literary tradition.

A poetry collection that tries to answer contemporary difficulties through song and story.

It responds to the present at the edge of language.

A substantial study that uses the editor Diderot as a lens to interpret the vast project of the Encyclopédie and the Enlightenment.

The forest of the Encyclopédie is revisited through the lens of editing.