Japan: The Passenger

Japan: The PassengerVisitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's monolithic social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures that flourish in its "post human" megacities. The country nonetheless remains an impossibly complicated jigsaw puzzle whose overall design eludes us. Its inscrutability has made the

hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike

and that’s something people don’t believe in anymore

Why robots can swim and fly but find it difficult to walk

Kelly’s own How to Make Gravy

With its unprecedented narrative twists and terrifying images

prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name ‘Hurricane Clarice’

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they also shaped us

A small country caught amongst the world’s largest powers—including China

A new edition of David Byrne’s bestselling magnum opus

He bares his soul - his passions

and dangerous again