Novels

Haru­ki Murakami’s hit nov­el 1Q84 fea­tures a mem­o­rable scene in a taxi­cab on a grid­locked free­manner whose radio is play­ing Leoš Janáček’s Sin­foni­et­ta. “It’s, because the e book sug­gests, tru­ly the worst pos­si­ble music for a traf­fic jam,” writes Sam Ander­son in a New York Instances Magazine­a­zine professional­file of the nov­el­ist: “busy, upbeat, dra­mat­ic — like 5 nor­mal…