This roundtable on description in the novel took place on May 3, 2016, at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Concluding the inaugural year of the Novel Theory Seminar, the ...
J. Keith Vincent
J. Keith Vincent teaches Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University. Together with Alan Tansman he has co-edited a selection of new essays on Sōseki, originally written in English, that will appear in the Japanese journal Bungaku (December 2014). He is the author of Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction (2012) and his translation of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s novel Devils in Daylight is forthcoming from New Directions. 
Virtual Roundtable on
What Makes a “True Novel”?
Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel is an utterly absorbing love story set against the broad backdrop of pre- and postwar Japan. It tells the story of Taro Azuma, who grows up as an orphan in grinding ...