In the afterword to his latest novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” Haruki Murakami writes that authors spend their careers rearranging a “limited pallet of motifs” to tell a “limited number of ...

Ah, the folly of youth. But when I was young, everyone was doing it. From a Celtic band, to Japanese writing, to barcodes inked on to the lower back, you can date people quite effectively by their ...