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Lafcadio Hearn in 1889 / Photo by Frederick Gutekunst
Born in Greece in the mid-nineteenth century, Lafcadio Hearn shuffled between Ireland, the West Indies, and a few cities in America before landin…
Reid Bartholomew
March 5, 2020
PHOTO: Antonio Tajuelo NESTLED IN TŌKYŌ'S Chiyoda Ward is Jinbōchō, a quieter side of the city that stands in sharp contrast with the frenetic energy of central Tōky…
THE VIDEO-SHARING platform YouTube has developed entirely new ways to form communities and proliferate ideas, and among those on the rise is the phenomenon of booktubers. Booktubers…
IT'S A RUNNING JOKE that Nagoya is the most boring city in Japan, and at first glance it seems like there’s some truth to it. It’s not the flashy Tokyo, the bustling merchant city of…
photo: Kodansha (Kiyoshi Mori) Masatsugu Ono is a Japanese writer based in Tokyo and the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The water-covered grave), whi…
A Book Bento Box post for Hermione Hoby’s debut novel Neon in Daylight. photo: courtesy of book bento box W hile social media gives us an unprecedented connection to each o…
April 2, 2018Herman Trunk, Jr., (1894‑1963). Mount Vernon, 1932. Oil on canvas, 34 1/4 × 46 1/16in. (87 × 117 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; With Permission of The Her…
February 19, 2018Journeys with 'The Waste Land' at Turner Contemporary. photo: thierry bal LitFilm: A BPL Film Festival About Writers (Brooklyn, NY) 2/20/18—2/25/18…
January 10, 2018Misuzu Kaneko (1903–1930) is a poet who holds a special place in the hearts of many Japanese as a voice of compassion in a difficult time for the country. The recently published Are You an Echo? T…
November 8, 2017World Literature Today intern Reid Bartholomew sat down with Chad Reynolds, one of the co-founders of children’s lit publisher Penny Candy Books, and Hanan Awad, a Palestinian American s…
September 1, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Indiaeducationdiary.in provides a rundown of the Mountain Echoes Literary Festival in Thimphu, Bhutan. The New Yorker engages with the work of Norwegian autho…
August 22, 2017Photo by Jonathan Armstrong Translator Allison Markin Powell discusses her most recent project, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and provides some insight into her approach to t…
August 18, 2017Photo: Valerie Ram/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Restless Books, a nonprofit publisher, has an Indiegogo campaign up, offering rewards for donors, including signed copies of books. Reviewing D…
In midtown Oklahoma City, independent businesses are thriving off of the community’s desire for a new approach to urban living. Emerging from that environment, Commonplace Books sits in a brick build…
August 11, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews PEN America pushes for information on the Chinese government’s imprisonment of poet and artist Liu Xia. 2014 Neustadt Juror Rabih Alameddine and NSK Juror Hayan Charara…
July 11, 2017The dog days of summer are upon us, and there’s no better way to pass through the longer days than curling up with a book in the shade. If you’re looking for some words to keep you company, there are…
