Monkey Business International Volume 3

Monkey Business International is the in-translation offspring of the Tokyo-based magazine Monkey Business, which was founded in 2008 by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most highly regarded men of letters.

MBI aims to translate and present a wide array of established and emerging authors, showcasing the best of contemporary Japanese literature.

With the generous support of the Nippon Foundation, A Public Space is the publisher and partner of Monkey Business International. MB and APS first conceived of MBI when Shibata curated a portfolio of Japanese literature in the debut issue of APS.

Volume 3 showcases Japanese writing new and old, with an apocalyptic view
of Tokyo by Hideo Furukawa, a series of avant-garde poems by the
prewar Korean poet Yi Sang, the debut work of Japan’s Grandma Moses of
literature, Masatsugu Ono’s tale of monkeys and men, new stories by
Hiromi Kawakami, Gen’ichiro Takahashi, Mieko Kawakami, a manga based on Kafka's Metamorphosis, new work from Paul Auster, Richard Powers and Charles Simic -- and much, much more.