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In honor of Mother’s Day, we’ve compiled a list of recent literature that explores mothers of all sorts: good, bad, deceased, new, and even a little on the crazy side. One thing’s for sure: these moms are anything but ordinary. But let’s be honest. Are any mothers ordinary? Perhaps these works wil...
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"We have a Cold War on the Russian soul," said Mikhail Shishkin. Lines are drawn, barricades are up. On one side are the nationalists and isolationists who proclaim Russia to be the center of the world and a power to be reckoned with. On the other side of the barri...
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Bravery comes in many forms. As Salman Rushdie said to me in an interview, and confirmed at the opening night of PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, the artist standing up to repression is just one kind of bravery. Another is the courage to create a new work of a...
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Tomorrow is National Poem in Your Pocket Day, and we are providing a printable PDF of “Words” by Dana Gioia, and the download comes paired with the Spanish translation by José Emilio Pacheco. The poem was reprinted by permission of Ediciones el Tucan de Virginia in the September 2011 issue...
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Have you been keeping up with the 2013 Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature and Culture? Hop on over to our website for the festival at www.puterbaughfestival.org to see photo galleries from the week's events featuring 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste and visiting photographer Phil...
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Photo Irina Patrascu/Flickr Valentine’s Day looms. You have someone; you don’t have someone; you are caught between someones. Wherever you find yourself on the relationship spectrum, you’ll enjoy this collection of international stories, new and old, that portray the dark complexities of romance....
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Photo by Christopher Dilts As a refugee from Vietnam, a country colonized by the French and then fought over by the Americans and the Soviet Union, I see the Obama presidency as spelling the end of a five-hundred-year-old colonial curse. Decades ago, English still unruly on my tongue, I read a spi...
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Photo Flickr/PennStateLive British journalist Sam Leith is the author of one novel and three nonfiction books, most recently "You Talkin’ to Me?": Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. Here he talks about real and fictional rhetoricians, including Bill Clinton, Mark Antony, Humbert H...
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Mo Yan. Photo by Jonathan Stalling. Shortly after China woke up to the news on October 11 that a Chinese national had won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, a storm of discussion raged throughout China’s social media networks that has yet to abate. The news was met in the rest of the world, ho...
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Larry Lempert, Karin Nyman, Helen Sigeland and Felicitas von Lovensberg in conversation. Day two in Frankfurt and the fair is buzzing with activity. For those of us focusing on children’s literature, Hall 3 is the place to be. Children’s and young adult literature are the main focuses, and publish...
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The end of this year's Neustadt Festival is just hours away, but the attendance, energy, and excitement around the events this year have been unmatched. Take a look at our second gallery of festival highlights including shots from the documentary film screening, panel discussions, and performances...
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The Neustadt Festival kicked off Tuesday evening with a packed-house at the opening night reception and an energetic Wednesday morning with hundreds of fourth and fifth graders from the Norman Public Schools. Check out the photo gallery to see what's been happening at the 2012 Neustadt Festival, an...
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“If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.” ― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Indian-Canadian novelist Rohinton Mist...
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The Edinburgh International Book Festival is off to an energetic start, and in the course of two weeks the festival will feature no fewer than eight hundred international writers in around 750 unique events. The festival, which has grown into an event attracting over 200,000 attendees since its hum...
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Photo by HollyColleen/Flickr Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus partnered with Chilean arts collective Casagrande in the “Rain of Poems,” dropping 100,000 bookmarks featuring the work of three hundred poets over London from a helicopter. My last piece, “How Literature Saved the Olympics,” proved...
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Upon finishing Chris Cleave’s recent novel Gold (a drama examining the friendship and family of three Olympic-caliber British cyclists), I took to the Web to find other fiction featuring Olympic competition. I didn’t expect what I found: there’s not a lot out there. Or there’s not a lot t...
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New Windows into the Iranian American Experience: An Interview with Anita Amirrezvani & Persis Karim
Left: Anita Amirrezvani Right: Persis Karim
Perhaps best known to the American public for the memoir genre, Iranian American literature has expanded considerably since the late twentieth century. Noting a trend away from...
In honor of Mother’s Day, we’ve compiled a list of recent literature that explores mothers of all sorts: good, bad, deceased, new, and even a little on the crazy side. One thing’s for sure: these moms are anything but ordinary. But let’s be honest...
All new links ready for your perusal, including photo recaps of this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, two exciting events in London this month, and a flash game inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most enduring work.
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Emily Johnson, Associate Professor of Russian in the University of Oklahoma’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, is a longtime contributing editor to World Literature Today. After seeing Essaydi’s...