The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Murakami's new novel, due out November 19 (2024) in English, his first in six years and a kind of sequel to Hard-Boiled Wonderland.

Where it appears 2

• 
  the forbidden wonderland of murakamiEp 10 · with Salih Yayar

  Murakami's latest novel, which Tamir is currently reading. It expands a 1980s story; Salih links its walls to COVID lockdowns and the war in Ukraine and notes a heavier focus on death as Murakami ages, while Tamir is skeptical of reading it as political allegory.

  Listen at 13:45Read it in the transcript
• 
  the antidote to madnessEp 2 · with Grant Shipway

  Listen at 1:24:52Read it in the transcript

Connections

Written by

• Haruki Murakami

Related

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Referenced by

• The Shadow (Murakami)