The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami

The writer on his style, his process, and the strange, dark places he encounters on the page. “What is he like? Is he a kind man?” I was asked by an anxious administrator who had been assigned to guide me through Tokyo’s Aoyama neighborhood to Haruki Murakami’s office, which was in a discreet, unmarked building on a side street. She visibly deflated when Murakami’s assistant answered the door, acc