One of my favorite recent maxims about becoming better stewards of the earth is this one from waste-minimizing chef Anne-Marie Bonneau: “We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. W...
The Seer, by Maia Cruz Palileo
The March issue of World Literature Today is my first foray into my new role as art director at WLT, and I could not have asked for a bette...
In Other Words
Jhumpa LahiriTrans. Ann GoldsteinKnopf, 2016
Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words is a vulnerable journey of self-exploration by means of linguistic exile. It’s notably her...
Starling murmuration. Photo by Airwolfhound/Flickr
Five years after meeting at the Literary Translation Summer School run by the British Centre for Literary Translation, translators Morgan Giles,...
This summer Web Editor Jen Rickard Blair is planning to read a balance of books that refuel calm and creativity as well as examine human nature and our shared hi...
As a combination of the visual enterprise of film and the innovative structure of graphic novels, video games are able to do things with narrative that no other medium has done before. Read more about...
Alina Bronsky
Baba Dunja’s Last Love
Trans. Tim Mohr
Europa Editions
Alina Bronsky is skillful at inventing darkly humorous protagonists, and Baba Dunja is no exception. This short novel is a surp...
It’s no secret that the city of Austin is a music-festival mecca, but this November the 21st annual Texas Book Festival proved that a literary festival can equally flourish and energize this arts-and-...
Summer weather has already arrived in Austin, and it’s the perfect excuse for WLT’s digital media editor, Jen Rickard Blair, to jump-start her annual summer reading list. Her...
The “Keep Austin Weird” adage has grown to mean something unique among many Austinites—it’s long been a celebration of creative resistance, a clash between economic growth and eccentricity. In recent...
Roland Glasser, tr. Deep Vellum. 2015.
Tram 83 (2015) is a lively, frenetic novel filled with a motley cast of characters lustful for pleasure, prosperity, and power. It’s based in...
Zoran Živković’s Hidden Camera (translated by Alice Copple-Tošić)unfolds within that indefinite space between dream and reality. Upon receiving a mysterious film-screening invitatio...
As the United States Postal Service hosts a stamp dedication event tomorrow in Washington, DC, for the release of their Maya Angelou Forever stamp, we’re delighted to share images of the new stamp as...
Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams
News, Reviews, and Interviews
Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conversa...
Jane Hirshfield. Photo by Nick Rosza
News, Reviews, and Interviews
Brand new literary translation publisher Deep Velllum is picking up momentum. The publisher has just released the first of legendar...
Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated by Alison Anderson, is a pairing of two witty, charming protagonists: Renée, a fifty-four-year-old con...
Photo by Nèg Foto
Whether you’re looking for a quick escape on your midday break or a quiet lunch with that always entertaining friend, literature, this list includes five short works of fiction that...
With a dose of wit and self-deprecation, Aaliya is a narrator who doesn’t fail to entertain. Rabih Alameddine invites the reader into Aaliya’s late-life crisis where—after a few glasses of red wine—sh...
Invisible Love by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Translated by Howard Curtis. Europa Editions.
This newest collection of short stories from Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt examines the facets of love through a...
News, Reviews, and Interviews
Need a dose of literary inspiration? Watch the highlights reel from the 2014 Puterbaugh Festival, where award-winning Argentinean-Spani...
“Perhaps this approach to discussing the art of translation is not very different from the tradition of midrash, where the holy book is revisited again and again, so the years bring only more rich...
Andrés Neuman autographing a book after opening night. Photo by Laura Hernandez
We’ve been buzzing on the WLT Facebook and Twitter accounts all week with exciting reports from the 2014 Puter...
A Q&A with Deji Olukotun
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Deji Olukotun is PEN’s inaugural Freedom to Write Fellow, and he’s helping to lay a universal foundation at all PEN...