Banana Yoshimoto

Jan 13, 2025 | aliciakennedy.news | Banana Yoshimoto |Alicia Kennedy

Mushroom au poivre was suddenly everywhere. My husband was flipping through Bon Appétit and pointed it out to me, then sent me a New York Times Cooking post on Instagram. The message was clear: He wanted to eat mushroom au poivre. I found the Times has portobello and maitake versions on their site. All of these variations called for heavy cream, and so I pushed it to Christmas. Heavy cream is a holiday-only kind of ingredient in my life.

Oct 26, 2023 | powells.com | Banana Yoshimoto |Marie NDiaye |Sayaka Murata |Ginny Tapley Takemori

As I write this, the weather outside has gone from sunny to gloomy and rainy: perfect reading weather. To celebrate, we’ve pulled together a list of our favorite works in translation published this last month.

Sep 26, 2023 | powells.com | Jamaica Kincaid |Banana Yoshimoto |Evelyn Waugh |Russell Hoban

Describe your latest book/project/work. Land of Milk and Honey is about the search for pleasure at the end of the world. A smog has descended and killed all food crops when an American chef is lured to a secret colony of the wealthy at the border of Italy. It’s the story of how one woman comes alive again to food, to her body, to her own source of pleasure in a world that seems to be dying; and it’s also the story of how society grapples with questions of how we divide limited resources.

Sep 6, 2023 | eshaverbooks.com | Banana Yoshimoto

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truthYayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood.

Sep 1, 2023 | lmtonline.com | Banana Yoshimoto |Cameron McWhirter

FICTION 1. 'A House for Alice' By Diana Evans (Sept. 12) The fourth novel by British writer Evans begins on the horrific night in 2017 when London's Grenfell Tower burned, killing more than 70 people. Against that big social backdrop, Evans's book follows the intimate story of one family: three daughters and their recently widowed mother, Alice, who plans to move back to Nigeria, her homeland. 2. 'Devil Makes Three' By Ben Fountain (Sept.