The little white attic

2020 somehow became my year of East Asian literature and I’ve just realised that I forgot to put up a list of the works I read. Here it is: ...

Readers may find it tempting to compare The Diary of Lady Murasaki and The Pillow Book —after all, the authors are the 2 most celebrated fem...

In the introduction of The Pillow Book , Meredith McKinney quotes Murasaki Shikibu’s lines about her in her diary:  “Sei Shonagon… was d...

1/ I’ve been reading The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon (translated by Meredith McKinney), which I think would be a great companion piece to Th...