Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami: Book Review

An idiosyncratic and uninhibited narrative, Breasts and Eggs, is a book you haven’t had read before. It tells no story, but rather it’s a book of experiences, voices, an introspective on women's bodies- how it feels to own it, accepting and taking control of it with conviction. An exploration of affairs of single women, working-class …

Spark by Naoki Matayoshi: Book Review

Spark is a short book about two comedians- Tokunaga and Kamiya and their life in comedy. It focuses on the manzai comedy of the Japanese culture- a kind of stand-up comedy involving two performers playing jokes in their mutual conversations. Tokunaga is an aspiring manzai comedian who wishes to make it big in his career, …

Writers & Lovers by Lily King: Book Review

Writers & Lovers is the story of Casey Peabody, who recently lost her mother, has defaulting student loans, is struggling to finish her novel she’s been writing for six years, and her in and out relationships with two men at the same time. The book precisely represents the life of a thirty-year-old woman in mess, …