June 8–14, 2026
Dreamlike prose, blurred edges between real and imagined, stories that feel like waking from a nap you don’t remember falling into.
Two moons hang in a Tokyo sky — and everything familiar tilts sideways into wrongness. Murakami's most immersive work dissolves the border between parallel realities until you can't quite remember which world you woke up in.
A man's perfectly ordered life — wife, daughters, successful jazz bar — dissolves the moment his childhood sweetheart reappears, beautiful and unknowable. Murakami's most intimate novel asks whether we ever truly wake from our earliest longings.
by Han Kang
A woman simply stops eating meat — and her refusal to explain fractures everything her family believed they controlled. Han Kang tells this quiet devastation from everyone's perspective but hers, making her silence the story's most eloquent rebellion.
Two parallel journeys — one boy fleeing prophecy, one old man following cats — blur together across Murakami's most expansive landscape, where libraries become doorways and the metaphysical arrives as casually as rain.
A woman sleeps while her sister drifts through Tokyo's neon midnight — Murakami's camera eye captures the city between dream and waking, where a Denny's becomes a portal and time moves like mercury. The night itself becomes a character, fluid and unknowable, pulling you under its spell.