In November 2025 I met poet and translator Yuki Tanaka at his Hosei University office in Tokyo, where he has been teaching poetry and creative writing in the English literature department since 2019.…

Photo of Rie Qudan: © SHINCHOSHA In Rie Qudan’s novel Sympathy Tower Tokyo (Summit Books, 2025), translated into English by Jesse Kirkwood, an architect named Sara Machina designs…