Photo credit: Elsa Noblet / Unsplash After 140 days at home, one person wants more space; the other, more plants. I wanted a room of my own, so I talked my husband into moving into a larger…

Yu Miri / Courtesy of Zoom Japan Yu Miri first started researching the evictions of the homeless community in Tokyo’s Ueno Park back in 2006. Days or even hours before visits by the emperor and the i…

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…

Photo by Martin Lewison / Flickr When Convenience Store Woman came out in 2016, Murata Sayaka (b. 1979) won the Akutagawa Prize, usually the imprimatur of potential for a new writer. This wa…

“Yellow Dust,” Tokyo, 2009 / Photo by OiMax / FlickrIn this short essay, one of Japan’s early avant-garde writers turns his attention to dust, asking, “Just what kind of game are you playing?”…

Browsing the antiquarian book fair / Photo by peter-rabbit / Flickr I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her…

Misuzu 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…

News, Reviews, and Interviews Libyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa was recently announced as one of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipients, and in an interview with NPR…

Andrés Neuman, the 2014 Puterbaugh Fellow, will be visitingWLT at the University of Oklahoma March 26-28th. All this week, we’ve been preparing for the Puterbaugh Festival, where we will be…

What an exciting week for WLT! As you know (or will find in the links below), we recently announced the jurors of the 2014 Neustadt Festival. You can expect the Neustadt Prize finalists annou…