Vol. 2 was published during the second year of pandemic. This magazine issue celebrates Travel — something we mostly imagined in 2021! It features the best of contemporary Japanese literature, from Kikuko Tsumura and Aoko Matsuda to Mieko Kawakami and Haruki Murakami, new translations of work by twentieth-century writers such as Yasunari Kawabata, a new graphic story by Satoshi Kitamura inspired by Gogol's "The Overcoat," and new work by American and Canadian writers Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Eric McCormack, and Barry Yourgrau.

MONKEY: New Writing from Japan is the English version of the Tokyo-based Japanese literary journal MONKEY, founded by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most acclaimed translators of American fiction.

Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches

Print Length: 184 pages