Introduction Sayaka Murata has spent much of her life asking a question that refuses to settle into a simple answer:What is a human being beneath the roles, language, morality, fear, and expectations that shape us?Her fiction often begins by changing one rule of the world and then watching what people become inside it. She has described her creative process … [Read more...] about Sayaka Murata Imaginary Friends: The Mystery Behind Her Inner World
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If Jane Austen Lived Today: Conversations on Modern Virtue
Introduction by Jane Austen (Austen’s voice emerges with the composure of a woman who has outlived both her critics and her century.)Two hundred years ago, I wrote about what I saw from a small drawing room in Hampshire: pride disguised as dignity, love disguised as propriety, virtue performed for applause. I was told my world was small. Yet I found within that … [Read more...] about If Jane Austen Lived Today: Conversations on Modern Virtue