Journal

Granta 127: Japan edited by Yuka Igarashi et al.

by Cassandra Atherton •

August 2014, no. 363

Granta, $27.99, pb, 272 pp

Journal

Granta 127: Japan edited by Yuka Igarashi et al.

by Cassandra Atherton •

August 2014, no. 363

Granta’s recent offering, a special edition devoted to Japan, is a brilliant homage to Japanese wabi sabi. Editor Yuka Igarashi has selected stories and artwork that challenge the tired stereotypes of Nippon to deliver a series of powerful works exploring wabi sabi’s investment in what Andrew Juniper has identified as ‘impermanence, humility, asymmetry and imperfection’.

Cassandra Atherton

Cassandra Atherton is a poet and scholar. She is Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She was a Harvard Visiting Fellow in English and a Visiting Scholar in Comparative Culture at Sophia University, Tokyo. She is writing a book of prose poetry on the atomic bomb with funding from an Australia Council grant.