Yoko Tawada

  • The cover to Three Streets by Yoko Tawada

    Three Streets by Yoko Tawada

    Yoko Tawada
    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 Maya…
  • The cover to The Emissary by Yoko Tawada

    The Emissary by Yoko Tawada

    Yoko Tawada
    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 regi…
  • The cover to Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada

    Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada

    Yoko Tawada
    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 Bear…