PositiveThe AtlanticI find the writer Haruki Murakami’s closet of T-shirts fascinating ... a lightweight book titled Murakami T: The T-shirts I Love, is part ode, part exhibit that reads with restrained affection for his accidental accumulations ... In deadpan essays originally published in the Japanese men’s fashion magazine Popeye, the author carefully recounts the stories behind each tee ... The diaristic entries have the simplicity of a show-and-tell, with Murakami’s spare prose offering a material history of his closet. The writer turns into a taxonomist, categorizing his wardrobe by theme: whiskey, record stores, lizards and turtles, literature ... these tees excavate an intimate history. The choices we make about what we find and keep point to our interior worlds ... Murakami’s understated love letters to his tees also convey how we give life to our things and vice versa.
