From the daily newsletter: a selection of Yukio Mishima novels. Plus: Emily Witt on the L.A. wildfires; Justin Chang’s Oscars ...

is still searching for meaning behind his brother’s death in the Mishima incident. The brothers’ ideologies were polar opposites. In Osamu’s career in politics, he had been a staunch ...

The life and death of acclaimed writer Yukio Mishima is a cautionary reminder of the complex, sometimes dangerous ...

The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

The catalogue of 20th-century writers who committed suicide is long and sad: Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf, Ernest ...