After a two-year renovation project, the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo announced it will reopen its doors in January.

A Symposium at Rice University

Densho unequivocally condemns recent statements made on the podcast Timcast IRL suggesting that Chinese Americans should be incarcerated in the event of a war between China and the U.S.  On...

Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

The Governor’s Council to Record the Truth of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS (“Minnesota Truth Council”) was established by Executive Order 26-05 on March 25, 2026, to create a comprehensi...

“The Bride at Sixty” by Kyoko Hayashi follows the story of three older women who have been friends since they were schoolgirls against the backdrop of the atomic bombings of Japan.

A poet arrives in Japan with her daughter for a family visit, only to find that her mother's health issues are more pressing than she thought.

There’s no better way for students to show their professors what they’re capable of.

The intensely confessional work of Japan’s most famous modernist poet, considered the Japanese Rimbaud, whose poems have inspired cultlike devotion—especially among fans of the hit anime show...

Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of Calif...

The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles.

YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center

Keep the National Archives regional facilities open

On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...

The liberation of the American peoples cannot be achieved without the shedding of imperial weight, writes the Pulitzer prize-winning author in this somber essay marking the semiquincentennial.

沖縄の文学界に、新しい星が現れた。２３歳の豊永浩平さん。三島由紀夫賞に輝いた最新作の「はくしむるち」でも、デビュー作でも、沖縄戦が物語に大きな意味をもたらしている。なぜ、いま８１年前に立ち返るのか。…

Research, funding, policy, and an environmental understanding must all come together

AI has already changed writing. Now the technology is changing what it means to read.

by Glen Kitayama, Vice-Chair of the Manzanar Committee “This [injustice] is still happening today. We’re not alone. We have to be like the Quakers [during World War II]. They were not afraid to sup…

Your morning catch-up: Reduced access to California’s best preserved WWII Japanese detention camp, a crisis in 'Chinese Beverly Hills' and more big stories

[While I did teach a couple online courses during my Spring semester sabbatical, I didn’t have my usual slate of classes by any means. So in lieu of my usual Semester Reflections series, this week I’l...

An in-person event in Sausalito, CA

"We do not need to work harder when reading Boynton. Her work, especially when taken as a whole, rewards pause."

Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin’s new collection of poems (2010–2014) seeks meaning in an ever-connected world, giving voice to objects that may not speak a human language but communicate with us n...

Boxed up photographs, wartime poetry, comic strips, and more tell stories that families couldn't speak

In an interview about her latest book, Annie McClanahan talks service work, labor history, and the human labor that goes into AI.

Jackie Robinson can help us better remember a largely forgotten teammate and childhood friend, Shigeo “Shig” Takayama, and the connections between African American and Japanese American baseball.

In “Questions 27 & 28,” Karen Tei Yamashita opens an inquiry into how the story of the past gets made.

The Slogan and the Map - Volume 140 Issue 3