“Oh! A haibun!” Exactly. A haibun – and here, at long last, is the explanation – is a really short, ultra-dense and yet fluffy piece of writing by a haiku poet. A haiku, in turn, is a very short ...

Our new columnist Jan Snela thinks back on his trip to Japan a few months ago, interweaving recollections with reflections on the books he lugged around – or didn’t. The two of them looked like they ...