Tag Archives: Haruki Murakami

Murakami’s Emotional Blandness as Shield

By Robin Bates | Published: August 7, 2012

Haruki Murakami’s protagonists have a distinctive form of emotional blandness that helps them cope with the world.

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Bigotry = A Loathsome Lack of Imagination

By Robin Bates | Published: July 2, 2012

Murakami says that the worst thing about bigots is that they are hollow men devoid of imagination.

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Portal Fantasies – Nadal Loses, Italy Wins

By Robin Bates | Published: June 30, 2012

Judging by the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision and the defeats of Rafael Nadal and the German soccer team, the world passed through a strange portal this past Thursday.

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High Art, Low Art, and Murakami

By Robin Bates | Published: June 26, 2012

Murakami’s “1Q84″ seamlessly moves between high art and pop culture, complicating the issue of guilty reading pleasures.

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