A WLT intern, Sara Wilson is earning a master’s in literary and cultural studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her interests are postmodern and contemporary American fiction and poetry.
Editorial assistant Sara Wilson’s summer reading picks vary in content from knotty lovers’ quarrels to narratives gathered from the aftershock of warfare. She’s added some Neruda to h...
The Bridge of Beyond
Simone Schwarz-Bart, Barbara Bray, tr. New York Review Books Classics, 2013
Born in 1938 on the southwest coast of France, Caribbean writer Simone Schwarz-Bart spent her childhood...
Left: Anita Amirrezvani Right: Persis KarimPerhaps best known to the American public for the memoir genre, Iranian American literature has expanded considerably since the lat...
Ben Myers and his newest book Lapse Americana
April means tax stresses and spring, whether for you spring involves heavy snowfall or seasonal allergies. But in the U.S. April is also nationa...
Illustration by Jen Rickard
On March 13 fiction star Amelia Gray will perform in Boston at the seven-year anniversary of the raucous phenomenon known as the Literary Death Match, a monthly competitio...
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 thi...