New York. New Directions. 2025. 224 pages.Yoko Tawada’s fiction is packed with bracing ideas about language and community, but she has the lightest of touches, even when she’s grappli…
Yoko Tawada
New York. New Directions. 2025. 192 pages.In the witty and curious essays collected in Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, Yoko Tawada examines the deep roots and di…
New York. New Directions. 2022. 64 pages.IN “MAJAKOWSKIRING,” the second story in Yoko Tawada’s Three Streets, an unnamed narrator encounters an undead writer. Vladimir Mayak…
New York. New Directions. 2018. 128 pages.In her latest book, Yoko Tawada describes a dystopian Japan after an unspecified disaster: the ground is contaminated, food growth is limited to certain regio…
New York. New Directions. 2016. 288 pages. As acrobatic with her writing as her polar bear subjects, Yoko Tawada walks a line between fantastical yet believable. Her novel Memoirs of a Polar…
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