The literary journal Monkey Business launched its seventh annual issue this month with events in Boston and New York, continuing its focus on innovative writing from Japan in a U.S. publishing landscape with comparatively little room for translated literature.The magazine, founded in 2011 by editors Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, started as an English-language counterpart to Shibata's Japanese journal of the same name. The international version has made headway abroad with Japanese contributors such as Haruki Murakami, Yoko Ogawa, Hideo Furukawa and others published in translation alongs…READ FULL ARTICLE
