Hawarden, pronounced “Harden,” sits on the edge of Wales. Walk along the River Dee for an hour and you’ll cross into England. This is borderland ...
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You, a New York Times Editor’s pick. Her short work has appeared in Granta, The Guardian, the Paris Review Daily, and Guernica. She has received residencies from the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, Gladstone’s Library, and Hedgebrook. (Author photograph: Heike Steinweg) 
Japanese on Montagu Street
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. “My colleagues think I’m going to come back with this crazy haircut,” says the man in ...