John Nathan's Books
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Living Carelessly in Tokyo and ElsewhereJohn Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no...Read More
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Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 16, 2010
...and insights sprinkled throughout. I only found one weak paragraph in the book, where Oe and his translator John Nathan descend into clich: his father telling him as a child, on another stormy night, that life was like a family emerging from the...
Crikey Media, August 8, 2009
...debt surges upwards, they are doing so again. How worried should we be? When Patrick met Zoë by John Nathan Playwright Patrick Marber wrote the screenplay of Zoe Heller?s book Notes on a Scandal. Both writers talked to John Nathan about the painful...
The Reading Life, December 25, 2009
... Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! (translated from Japanese by John Nathan, 258 pages, 1986) is the seventh work by Kenzaburo Oe that I have read. In every post I have tried to voice my great respect and...
