Jay Rubin

One of Penguin Classics’ most popular translations—now also in our elegant black spine dressRyünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan’s foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly…

Natsume Soseki’s only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving “real world” of Tokyo. Baffled…