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Alan Bray
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
The Single Life
Last time, we looked at the end of Kino and the way Kino the character transforms, driven to an extreme point by the experience of having...


Alan Bray
- Jan 13, 2022
- 5 min
Snakes
When we last left Kino, he’d just had the encounter with the woman burned by cigarettes and was shown feeling ambivalently about her....


Alan Bray
- Jan 6, 2022
- 5 min
Let's Step Outside
Kino’s bar is a modest success. We learn more about “the man.” “My name is Kamita,” he said. It’s written with the characters for “god”...


Alan Bray
- Dec 30, 2021
- 4 min
Kino
This week, a new story, Kino, a long short story written by Haruki Murakami. An English version of Kino first appeared in The New Yorker...