Yamato Waki, Genji approaching death, from the series “The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn” (1989) (image courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art) On view in Manhattan through January 20, 2026, Wright’s ...

Melissa McCormick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture at Harvard University, earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan (1990) and her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2000).

The word "novel" quite literally means "new." As in a "new story" or a "new way of writing." And while it's true that popular novels as we know them are fairly "new," the modern novel as an art form ...

A 17th-century painting shows Murasaki Shikibu writing “The Tale of Genji.”Courtesy Ishiyamadera Ca. The “Game of Thrones” fan base is nothing compared to the one for “The Tale of Genji.” That ...

A chance encounter with "The Tale of Genji", a masterpiece of Japanese literature, led Donald Keene to a scholarly life aimed ...

At no time over the past 1,000 years has “The Tale of Genji” fallen out of favor with the Japanese public. Begun at the turn of the 11th century by a woman known to history as Murasaki Shikibu, the ...

Widely recognized as the world's first novel, as well as one of its best, the 11th-century tale of Genji the shining prince has been painstakingly and tenderly translated by Tyler, a retired professor ...

Fanfiction writers and fan artists have been maligned since the start of the internet, hunted by zealous copyright holders and ridiculed as derivative by academics. Well, no longer because fanfiction ...

The task is simple: walk or die.

The renowned 11th-century Japanese literary masterpiece is receiving great attention these days (see PW Interview, Aug. 20). Here it is paid elegant tribute in The Tale of Genji: Paintings and Legends ...

Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.