In the Sunday Times Stephen Armstrong offers what he thinks are: 'The key facts about the coolest writer in the world today', in Ten things you need to know about Haruki Murakami.
In the Telegraph Gary Dexter investigates How The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea got its name -- meaning the English title of the 1963 Mishima Yukio novel.
In Five Best in the Wall Street Journal 'Jackie Collins picks her favorite literary guilty pleasures' and to my great embarrassment I've read three of them.