David Boyd

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David Boyd is associate professor of translation and Japanese studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated fiction by Hiroko Oyamada (The Factory, 2019; The Hole, 2020; and Weasels in the Attic, 2022), Toh EnJoe (Harlequin Butterfly, 2024), and Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (Takaoka’s Travels, 2024).

Love All
By Coreco Hibino
September 2024
Coreco Hibino
Photo by Shunsuke Ono / Unsplash.comA lover of love, everything Momo does is designed to give her the advantage. They pretty much spent their days sifting through the freckles, moles, and pimples that…
Heaven: A Novel by Mieko Kawakami
By Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami
New York. Europa Editions. 2021. 192 pages. FORTY-SIX-YEAR OLD Mieko Kawakami refuses to trivialize the agony of adolescence; instead she bears witness to it. She has described her ow…
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
By Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami
New York. Europa Editions. 2020. 448 pages. READERS OF THE WORK under review might be forgiven for thinking that they were enjoying Kawakami Mieko’s (b. 1976) Breasts and Eggs…