The Bookshop Band is traveling from Wigtown, Scotland, for its first US tour this week. Folk duo Ben Please and Beth Porter write and perform songs inspired by books using a var…
Interviews
- Photo by Ernesto Rodríguez / Pixabay Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s play about the Day of the Dead premiered in Oklahoma City in October, leading up to the Day of the Dead on Novem…
- Photo (left) by Larami Serrano Shea Serrano’s path to the best-seller list was far from ordinary and, in the most literal sense, homegrown. Originally a middle-school science teacher, one…
- Swedish novelist Therese Bohman is a columnist for Expressen, writing about literature, art, culture, and fashion. The English translation of her debut novel, Drowned, …
- photo : UNAMI/Sarmad Al-Safy Anoud, the pseudonym of an Iraqi-born author, was recently featured in Banthology: Stories from Unwanted Nations from Comma Press, an anthology that…
- photo : yvo luna Naomi Foyle (naomifoyle.com/wp), editor of A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry, discusses curating the project,…
- On October 9, 2017, World Literature Today sat down with six writers (in three groups of two) during the 25th anniversary “Returning the Gift: Native & Indigenous Literary Festival” held…
- On October 9, 2017, World Literature Today sat down with six writers (in three groups of two) during the 25th anniversary “Returning the Gift: Native & Indigenous Literary Festival” held…
- On October 9, 2017, World Literature Today sat down with six writers (in three groups of two) during the 25th anniversary “Returning the Gift: Native & Indigenous Literary Festival” held…
- Seth Michelson / Courtesy of Washington & Lee University In October 2017 nonprofit press Settlement House released Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention…
- World Literature Today intern Reid Bartholomew sat down with Chad Reynolds, one of the co-founders of children’s lit publisher Penny Candy Books, and Hanan Awad, a Palestinian American s…
- Malka Older / Photo by Allana Taranto In Null States, the second installment of Malka Older’s three-part book series, Older again typifies the truism…
- Jacqueline Williams (Aunt Ester) and Alfred H. Wilson (Solly Two Kings) in the 2015 Court Theatre production of Gem of the Ocean / Photo by Michael Brosilow Riley Keene Temple d…
- Stanley Gazemba was working as a gardener when his first book, The Stone Hills of Maragoli, was published and won the 2003 Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, Kenya’s t…
- Usha Akella’s poetry is known for an undertone of spirituality within a contemporary voice. Here she discusses the impact of travel on her work, poetry as a verb, and the distance betwee…
- Brian Turner / www.brianturner.org Brian Turner is an American writer and the author of Here, Bullet. He served seven years in the US Army and was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina…
- Google Deep Dream illustration by David Futrelle. Due to space constraints, the following excerpts from our Alan Moore interview in the January issue had to be cut. That intervi…
- Jorge Edwards. Photo: Miguel Lucena, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos (Madrid, Spain) Jorge Edwards (b. 1931, Santiago de Chile) has had one of the more extensive careers of Latin American writer…
- Emmanuel Iduma. Photo by Dawit L. Petros Emmanuel Iduma’s The Sound of Things to Come was first published as Farad in Nigeria. Its unusual style and ambition instantly…
- Alison Anderson and David Shook. Shook photo by Travis Elborough Three years ago, in a post published on Words Without Borders, Alison Anderson asked, “Where Are the Women in Translation?” T…
- A diagnostic nuclear radiologist, Amit Majmudar was named the first poet laureate of Ohio (2015–2017). He has published three books of poetry, including 0˚, 0˚ (2009), which was a finalist f…
- Jack Wolf, “Yellow spider mum,” 2009 Franca Mancinelli (Italy) and Ming Di (China/USA) met at the International Translation Workshop organized by the Center of Slovenian Literature in No…
- An in-class haiku translation project (2013) / Photo courtesy of Kimiko Hahn Recently, the Poetry Society of America announced award-winning poet Kimiko Hahn as its newly elected presid…
- Westpark, “parkverbot,” 2009 Alice Sant’Anna (b. 1988) is a prize-winning critically and internationally acclaimed poet from Rio de Janeiro who follows in the path of Brazil’s “marginal generation” p…
- A Conversation with Donald Molosi In January The Mantle published We Are All Blue, a collection of two plays by the Botswana actor and playwright Donald Molosi, including an introduction…