MONKEY Vol. 7
MEMORY

Vol. 7 of MONKEY is 160 pages of full color, featuring the best of contemporary Japanese literature and original work from American authors. What role does memory play in our lives? How do objects and places trigger memories?

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        “Wild, dizzying fun.”
      
        — ERIC MARGOLIS, JAPAN TIMES
      
        “An astonishment, by turns

        playful and profound.”
      
        — JUNOT DÍAZ
      
        “I feel my brain being reconfigured

        every time I read Monkey.”
      
        — MATTHEW SHARPE
      
        “Vibrating in the curious space

        between English and Japanese.”
      
        — CRAIG MOD, RIDGELINE
      
        “Monkey is full of deep, funny, wild, scary,

        fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work.”
      
        — LAIRD HUNT
      
        “Monkey is an event to be celebrated.”
      
        — LINDSAY SEMEL, ASYMPTOTE
      
        “Monkey is the coolest magazine in the world.

        It has the coolest new and classic Japanese writers,

        and some extremely cool English-language writers too.”
      
        — REBECCA BROWN, AUTHOR OF THE GIFTS OF THE BODY
      
        “MONKEY introduces me to writers who offer

        wild delights, who subvert and expand my sense

        of what narrative is capable of achieving.”
      
        — KELLY LINK

We are MONKEY.

MONKEY New Writing from Japan publishes the best in contemporary Japanese fiction in English translation, as well as other works both old and new by writers, artists, and translators from Japan, England, Canada, and the U.S.

MONKEY is the English-language offspring of the Tokyo-based Japanese literary journal MONKEY, founded by Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most acclaimed translators of American fiction. Selections are made by Shibata in consultation with Ted Goossen, one of the leading translators of Japanese fiction, and Meg Taylor, the managing editor.

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