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The article focuses on architecture and literature play with space and conventional practice has worked out ways of ignoring it. It mentions oral literature has a similar link with music and theatre through the play of time and suggests that literature could possibly jump into three-dimensional space. It also mentions concrete poet always looks for the blur of given language, notes its secret movements, its giveaway moments and laptop keyboard directing a word processing program.

The Japanese Yokai Handbook: A Guide to the Spookiest Ghosts, Demons, Monsters and Evil Creatures from Japanese Folklore. By Masami Kinoshita. Art by the author. Oct. 2023. 176p. Tuttle, paper, [...]

This article focuses on chapbooks, one of the most popular offerings of vendors known as "chapmen" who traveled through towns and across the countryside from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, first in Great Britain and then in America. Topics covered include the price, size and length of a typical chapbook, the subjects it covered, including fairy tales, popular fiction like "Robinson Crusoe" and philosophical works such as "Rights of Man," and the reason for the decline in its sales.

The creators of new comic book Hollow take us into their imaginative remix of American folklore classic, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Some stories endure and, as the decades roll [...]

EXPERT BIO MICHAEL DYLAN FOSTER Michael Dylan Foster is Professor of Japanese and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis, where [...]

In the north-eastern states, the society, culture and development are intimately interconnected and Manipur in not an exception to this uniqueness. The Folklore/Folktales originally known as 'popular antiquities' are stories [...]

Where are you based, what do you do and why? We're based in the hinterland of our imaginations, England. We explore the arcana of the farthest-flung recesses of this country [...]