Vol. 1 of the brand new MONKEY will be 152 pages of full color and printed at a larger trim size, allowing you to enjoy MONKEY like never before. The first issue features Food: A Monkey's Dozen, and includes translations into English of work from various issues of the Japanese MONKEY, as well as other works both old and new by writers, artists, and translators from Japan, England, Canada, and the U.S.

The Peach Itō Threw Rots, and She Becomes a Beast Once Again / a chapter from a novel by Hiromi Itō, translated by Jeffrey Angles

Good Stories Originate in the Caves of Antiquity / Haruki Murakami in conversation with Mieko Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen

The Razor / a story by Naoya Shiga, with remarks by Hirokazu Koreeda, translated by Ted Goossen

Fujito: A Noh Play / from the modern Japanese translation by Seikō Itō, translated and with an introduction by Jay Rubin

The Visitor / a graphic narrative by Jon Klassen, text by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Lucy North

Something Sweet / a story by Hiroko Oyamada, translated by David Boyd

Dinner at Mine / an essay by Tomoka Shibasaki, translated by Polly Barton

Sushi / a story by Kanoko Okamoto, translated by David Boyd

The Heart of the Lunchbox / a graphic story by Satoshi Kitamura

Nori and Eggs for Breakfast / an essay by Kuniko Mukōda, translated by David Boyd

Forest of the Ronpa / a story by Kyōhei Sakaguchi, translated by Sam Malissa

Turtledoves / a story by Naoya Shiga, translated by Ted Goossen

Seven Modern Poets on Food / selected and translated by Andrew Campana

The Goose / a story by Barry Yourgrau

Misaki / a story by Sachiko Kishimoto, translated by Ted Goossen

Dissecting Misogyny: A Live Demo! / a story by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton

Counterfeiting García Márquez / a story by Hideo Furukawa, translated by Jordan A.Y. Smith

Simone + Reminiscing / vignettes by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen

A Tired Town / a story by Steven Millhauser

Five Prose Poems by Makoto Takayanagi / translated by Michael Emmerich

Finding Mother / an essay by Jeffrey Angles

Why hasn't this been translated? Remarks from nine translators / Jeffrey Angles, Polly Barton, Michael K. Bourdaghs, David Boyd, Anna Elliott, Michael Emmerich, Ted Goossen, Lucy North, Hitomi Yoshio

Magazine: 152 Pages
Product Dimensions: 190 x 258 mm

Published by Monkey Business

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