Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe / Photo by Phillip Kalantzis Cope / FlickrIn the wake of the October 27 mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the Uni…
Lit Lists
November 16, 2018
October 23, 2018“Baseball’s time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was pl…
July 16, 2018Whether going Around the World in Eighty Days or on a slightly less ambitious journey, the best travel novels go the distance by taking the reader on a tour spanning miles, countries, and eve…
July 13, 2018Liu Xia, poet, artist, and wife of the late 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, was released this week after eight years of house arrest in China. From our January 2018 issue, Ming Di writes,…
June 29, 2018A section of the High Line Garden in New York. Photo: Bev / PixabayZEE JLF at Boulder, an international literature festival, has announced the confirmed author lineup for its 2018 festival, scheduled…
June 22, 2018Photo: PixabayKenny Fries muses on the invisibility of people with disabilities in conversations about diversity in publishing.David Schuman of the Kenyon Review covers Aminatta Forna’s lates…
June 15, 2018Writing for NPR, Karen Grigsby Bates remembers Anthony Bourdain’s humanizing influence and voice on behalf on marginalized groups.This week Pierce Alquist, writing for Book Riot, published a…
June 8, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Rivka Galchen gives a fascinating account of the Oklahoma teacher strike of 2018. Galchen’s father was a professor at th…
June 1, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Aminatta Forna’s new novel Happiness is getting rave reviews. Forna recently contributed to our November 2017 issue a…
May 25, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews The Man Booker International Prize has been awarded toPolish novelist Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, which will be reviewed in our J…
May 22, 2018Are you on the edge of your seat waiting for the announcement of the 2018 Man Book International Prize winner? Ease back and brush up on the shortlist with reviews and interviews of the translators an…
May 18, 2018News, Reviews, and InterviewsArabLit has put together a collection of five poignant quotes from Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif, who lives in Gaza, that poi…
May 11, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews This October brings the 25th Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the honoree this year is Haitian American writer Edw…
May 10, 2018On the Effects of Technological Advancement Theory of Bastardsby Audrey Schulman(Europa, April)Dr. Francine Burk, who is current…
May 4, 2018News, Reviews, and InterviewsOur new issue on speculative fiction includes an extensive list of international fiction in the genre. Carmen Maria Machado and Sof…
April 27, 2018Photo by Cayla1 on Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews Our May/June issue is online and hurtling through the global postal consortiums as…
April 20, 2018News, Reviews, and InterviewsKendrick Lamar dominated Pulitzer Prize headlines this week, but some other familiar faces to WLT readers appeared as well, including Patri…
April 13, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews A rare document from the life of Marcel Proust has been uncovered and will make its public debut at the Paris International Rare Book and Fine Art…
April 6, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews This past Wednesday would have been Maya Angelou’s ninetieth birthday. Read It Forward asked several authors—among them Ca…
March 30, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Aminatta Forna, writing for the PBS NewsHour, analyzes the power of crafting one’s own narrative in the face of suff…
March 23, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews The sixth edition of Life and Legends magazine is now out, and the theme is contemporary Indian poetry. The magazin…
March 16, 2018photo : pixabayNews, Reviews, and Interviews This month, the Poetry Coalition will kick off the series Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Po…
March 9, 2018photo: shevaun williams & associatesNews, Reviews, and Interviews World-renowned novelist Jenny Erpenbeck is being honored this week at the 2018 Puterbaugh…
March 2, 2018photo: pixabayNews, Reviews, and InterviewsIn her latest blog post, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman shares the PEN International Women’s Manifesto, which was ratified at PEN’s…
February 23, 2018photo: pixabay / evgeni tcherNews, Reviews, and Interviews Kathleen Rooney creates a playlist for largehearted b…
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