MONKEY 2026

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? This volume is filled with mind-bending takes on memory, ranging from a Lynchian encounter in an unmarked van to a letter sent more than a thousand years into the past, and much more!

Paperback 160 pages, full color
Dimensions ‏ 7 x 10 inches
ISBN paperback: 979-8-9886887-8-5
ISBN ebook: 979-8-9910170-1-5

Paperback - $25.00
ePub, PDF - $9.99

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VOLUME 7 | 2026

Murakami Mixtape

a report by Matthew Sharpe

Devaluation, Love and the Dragon,
Steamed Veggies with Mayonnaise,
Gold and Silver

People from My Neighborhood vignettes
by Hiromi Kawakami

translated by Ted Goossen

The Great Outdoors
a story by Kaori Fujino

translated by Kendall Heitzman

Sardines Are the Weakest Fish
a poem by Sawako Nakayasu

Izutsu: A Noh Play
from the modern Japanese translation by Seikō Itō

translated and with an introduction by Jay Rubin

Beauty Comes in Stages
an excerpt from The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters by Hideo Furukawa
translated and with an introduction by Kendall Heitzman

Spinel: A Memory Device
a prose poem by Makoto Takayanagi
translated by Michael Emmerich

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Memory: A Monkey’s Dozen

One Leg of a Journey
a story by Kyōhei Sakaguchi
translated by Sam Malissa

My Father’s Pictures
an excerpt from a memoir by Hiromi Itō
translated by Jeffrey Angles

Okagesama
a graphic story by Satoshi Kitamura

Kaoru and Yumi
an excerpt from a novel by Kaoru Shōji
translated by James Dorsey

Away
a story by Hiroko Oyamada
translated by David Boyd

A Faint Euphoria
a story by Yūshō Takiguchi
translated by Kendall Heitzman

Three Modern Poets on Memory and Forgetting
selected and translated by Andrew Campana

Wandering Songs
a story by Natsuko Kuroda
translated by Asa Yoneda

The Wristwatch
a story by Satoshi Kitamura

My Father’s Hat
an essay by Marie Mori
translated by Leo Elizabeth Takada

The Fly-Shit King
an excerpt from Dead Tree Coast by Kenji Nakagami
translated by Eve Zimmerman

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I Become a Moth
a poem by Ryōichi Wagō
translated by Chris Corker

Letter to Ono no Komachi
by Laurel Taylor

Komachis in the Paddy
an experimental translation in four parts
by Laurel Taylor and Ono no Komachi

A God’s-Eye View
Eric Ozawa interviews Polly Barton on translating Tomoka Shibasaki’s A Hundred Years and a Da

How does translating affect your memories?
Remarks from fourteen translators

Jeffrey Angles on the warping of memory
Polly Barton on slippage sites
David Boyd on filling in the blanks
Andrew Campana on poetry and digital memory
Chris Corker on the ghosts of unlived lives
Ted Goossen on childhood memories
Kendall Heitzman on translation and memory
Sam Malissa on being a changed man
Motoyuki Shibata at the riverbank
Leo Elizabeth Takada on sweeping time
Laurel Taylor on remembering what wasn’t there
Asa Yoneda on the forgetting game
Hitomi Yoshio on memories in a box
Eve Zimmerman on memories of wood

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