柴田元幸責任編集の文芸誌「MONKEY」英語版第５弾が刊行決定。CREATURES＝「いきものたち」をテーマにした、ここでしか読めない「猿の一ダース」が誕生。最良の翻訳者たちと最高の英訳を作成した特別な１冊です。 English edition of MONKEY Volume 5, edited by Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, will be published this fall. The fourth issue features CREATURES: A Monkey's Dozen. 【CONTENTS】 6 This Precious Opportunity a story by Aoko Matsuda translated by Polly Barton 8 Tamba-Sasayama a story by Sachiko Kishimoto translated by Margaret Mitsutani 12 White Dog, Black Crow an excerpt from The Holy Family by Hideo Furukawa translated by Kendall Heitzman 17 A Phone Call from Emily Dickinson a poem by Inuo Taguchi translated by Leo Elizabeth Takada 20 Bird’s-Eye View a chapter from Sheltering from Reality by Kyōhei Sakaguchi translated by Sam Malissa 25 After two years in a first-floor apartment, the tenant realizes that a certain cat would pass along the street in front at precisely the same time each day; following the cat, the tenant sees it disappear into a vacant house; when the tenant first moved into the apartment, the house wasn’t vacant a story by Tomoka Shibasaki translated by Polly Barton 28 Selections from Communications from a Wandering Comet five poems by Makoto Takayanagi translated by Michael Emmerich Creatures: A Monkey’s Dozen 36 Cathedral a story by Hiromi Kawakami translated by Ted Goossen 40 Bearman a story by Natsuki Ikezawa translated by Chris Corker 49 Other People’s Ghost Stories a story by Kelly Link 56 The Heron a selection from the novel Gretel and the Great War by Adam Ehrlich Sachs 59 Fish in Muddy Waters graphic vignettes by Satoshi Kitamura 66 Four Poems Sawako Nakayasu 72 The Q-Town Gazelle a story by Kikuko Tsumura translated by Polly Barton 82 Hildisvínis a story by Hiromi Itō translated by Jeffrey Angles 90 Four Modern Haiku Poets on Encounters with Creatures selected and translated by Andrew Campana 100 A Bear’s Tale a story by Laird Hunt 104 Discoveries a story by Hiroko Oyamada translated by David Boyd 112 To Abuse a Monster a story by Kaori Fujino translated by Laurel Taylor 122 A Night in Anton’s Basement a story by Midori Osaki translated by Asa Yoneda and David Boyd 130 Utō: A Noh Play from the modern Japanese translation by Seikō Itō translated and with an introduction by Jay Rubin 136 True Story and They Say two poems by Eleni Sikelianos 138 An Empty Shell a story by Ichiyō Higuchi translated by Hitomi Yoshio 146 Remembering Seiji Ozawa an essay by Haruki Murakami translated by Ted Goossen 150 Letter to the Silent Book Club by Eric McCormack 154 What do you do when a straightforward translation sounds weird? Remarks from twelve translators Jeffrey Angles on peculiar poetry and lucid prose Sonja Arntzen on the power of names David Boyd in defense of weirdness Ted Goossen on translating onomatopoeias Kendall Heitzman on discovering what a thing meant Sam Malissa on putting the pieces together Jay Rubin on the freedom to improvise Mariko Saitō on Japanese loanwords in Korean Motoyuki Shibata on “you” Asa Yoneda on rooms to dream in Hitomi Yoshio on titles and cover designs Anna Zielinska-Elliott on the temptation to add （出版社HPより） スイッチ・パブリッシング