Someone contacted me recently and told me that there was a new book out called "Retrograde", which contained translations of stories by the iconic author Osamu Dazai (1909-48), and would I be ...
Between emotive TikToks and unexpected fandom as a character in the manga and anime “Bungo Stray Dogs,” unpacking Osamu Dazai’s ongoing wave of renewed popularity nearly a century after the author’s ...
The Washington Post: Osamu Dazai’s bleak prose was matched only by his own misery
Writing is a famously miserable profession, but Osamu Dazai stands out as one of the most despondent writers ever to live. That strain is everywhere in evidence in his work, but it is on special ...
Osamu Dazai, trans. from the Japanese by Sam Bett. New Directions, $14.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3454-2 This beguiling novella from Dazai (1909–1948) revisits the protagonist from the ...
Osamu Dazai and Cocco Kashiwaya, trans. from the Japanese by Makiko Itoh. Tuttle, $14.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-4-8053-1761-7 Kashiwaya makes her English-language debut with a faithful manga ...
The Japanese novelist’s dark-hearted comedies are at once unhinged and brilliant. Osamu Dazai, 1924. Where to begin the story? It’s tempting to start at the end—on the morning of Osamu Dazai’s 39th ...
The New York Times: Osamu Dazai, With Help From TikTok, Keeps Finding New Fans
MSN: Book of the week: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai — a devastating reflection on loneliness, isolation and the search for self
Book of the week: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai — a devastating reflection on loneliness, isolation and the search for self