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John Nathan

John Nathan is an author, translator, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, and cultural critic who has devoted a long and rich lifetime to removing the cloak of enigma that surrounds the Japanese. Born in New York City, he spent part of his childhood in Tucson, Arizona, and now lives with his family in Santa Barbara, California.

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Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere will be released on March 18, 2008 in Hardcover
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Book Review: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels by Kenzaburo Oe
Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 16, 2010
...and insights sprinkled throughout. I only found one weak paragraph in the book, where Oe and his translator John Nathan descend into clich: his father telling him as a child, on another stormy night, that life was like a family emerging from the...
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
Ripple Effects, August 11, 2010
...and deserves multiple reading.Despite its complexity and denseness, the essence filters through Oe's meticulous descriptions.  Further, John Nathan's translation navigates effectively through Oe's nuanced and sensitive narratives.  I'm just curious as...
"Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age" by Kenzaburo Oe
The Reading Life, December 25, 2009
... Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!   (translated from Japanese by John Nathan, 258 pages, 1986)   is the seventh work by Kenzaburo Oe that I have read.   In every post I have tried to voice my great respect and...