In 2012, the New York Times published an illustration by Grant Snider called “Haruki Murakami Bingo.” Each square was filled with one of Murakami’s well-documented leitmotifs: “something vanishing,” ...

“Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” performs the most delicate balancing act between what many of Murakami’s devoted readers describe as the two fundamental categories of Murakamian ...

The title character in internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, passively consents to the course of his existence. He ...

In Haruki Murakami's hugely popular novels, philosophical observations tend to emerge from unlikely sources. And so it is that midway through his latest, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Haruki Murakami’s new novel is yet another risky reunion with the past. “The past is my treasure chest, and once I open it, I have so many materials in there,” says the 65-year-old ...

When Haruki Murakami's latest novel, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,” was published in his native Japan last year, Tokyo bookstores reported crowds of hundreds of people lined ...

It's hard to think of another writer who is as popular, as strange, and as lionized as Haruki Murakami is. Usually writers get to be one of those, but not all of them. Yet over the course of his ...

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, by Haruki Murakami. Knopf. 386 pages. $29.95. There is a shape with the unusual property of having a finite volume but an infinite surface area.

Murakami’s (1Q84) latest novel, which sold more than a million copies during its first week on sale in Japan, is a return to the mood and subject matter of the acclaimed writer’s earlier work. Living ...

Tsukuru Tazaki, the reluctant hero of Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,” has a curious problem for a character expected to entertain readers over the ...