MONKEY New Writing from Japan

"MONKEY introduces me to writers who offer wild delights, who subvert and expand my sense of what narrative is capable of achieving. When a new MONKEY shows up on my doorstep, I greet it like an old friend, too long absent, who has returned with pockets full of strange and delicious gifts." --Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love


"MONKEY is a marvel, miraculously immune to literary convention, market pressure, and the laws of nature. It seems to come from the distant past or the far future -- either way, it's one of my favorite sanctuaries from the banality of the present." --Adam Ehrlich Sachs, author of Gretel and the Great War

"MONKEY is more fun than anything called literature has a right to be. Some of the most imaginative writing in the world just so happens to hail from Japan." --Roland Kelts, Nikkei Asia

"An astonishment, by turns playful and profound" --Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"MONKEY is full of deep, funny, wild, scary, fabulous, moving, surprising, brilliant work." --Laird Hunt, author of Zorrie

"MONKEY has the coolest new and classic Japanese writers, and some extremely cool English-language writers too. Its graphics are also extremely cool. Whether you read MONKEY in Japanese or in English, you will be, at least for the duration of your reading, quite cool too."--Rebecca Brown, author of The Gifts of the Body