The Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai. By Andrew Martin. March 5, 2023. The first thing you hear is an eerie synth tone, followed by a portentous, insinuating voice. “Tell me, Dazai,” it says.

Osamu Dazai’s bleak prose was matched only by his own misery The Japanese writer’s short-story collection “No One Knows” shows why he was the master of melancholy. February 7, 2025 ...

The Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai wrote, better than almost anyone, about the thin line between isolation and belonging. By Jane Yong Kim. Illustration by The Atlantic. July 6, 2023.