 "WLT" frequently represents the sole source available anywhere for information on the less familiar—often unjustly overlooked—literary traditions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Roy Temple House's driving idea for the original publication came from his desire to offer non-ideological commentary on a variety of literatures to counter what he saw as America's dangerous trend toward isolationism in the 1920s.House hoped to promote more extensive and more thoughtful international understanding through the communication of a variety of opinions on art, literature, and ideas.