Forreaders who want to be introduced to exciting contemporary Japanese writers,especially women (Mieko Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and more).

MONKEY New Writing from Japan is anannual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume3 celebrates CROSSINGS: Transitioning Out of the Pandemic, we are inspired bystories of transformation and the joyful play between Japanese and Westernliteratures. MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as MiekoKawakami, Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Kawakami, and Aoko Matsuda; a graphicnarrative by Satoshi Kitamura; and contributions from Stuart Dybek and MatthewSharpe.