News, Reviews, and InterviewsElectric Literature rounds up a farewell to “Reader-in-Chief” President Obama, recalling each and every one of President Obama’s book recommendations, reading lists,…
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January 13, 2017
January 6, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Literary Hub examines the “Murakami effect” and how the dominance of English affects how authors reach an international audience. NPR’s Juan Vidal named five of…
December 19, 2016As 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…
December 16, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Obama administration speechwriter Jonathan Reiber writes about “the end of a literary presidency” in this Literary Hub article. Guernica inter…
December 13, 2016In our fifth annual list of “75 Notable Translations,” we again offer an admittedly incomplete collection of the year’s English translations. And again, we invite you to share your favorites from the…
December 9, 2016Munro’s Books in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo: ThreeFishSleeping/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews Quartz examines the “giant influence” that Fidel Castro had on Latin American li…
December 2, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews WLT contributing editor and Best Translated Book Award judge George Henson writes for Three Percent about the Neustadt Prize and keeping the foreign in tran…
November 18, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Award winners have been announced! Colson Whitehead, Ibram X. Kendi, and Daniel Borzutzky have won for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, respectivel…
November 11, 2016Students from the OU School of Drama who participated in the 2016 Neustadt Festival.News, Reviews, and InterviewsVia PEN America, writers including Alexander Chee, Negin Farsad, Aleksandar Hemon, and…
November 4, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews American poet, children’s book author, and translator Marilyn Nelson is the laureate of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Literature! After accepting the 2016 Neu…
November 1, 2016In a particularly gloomy United States election year that “has taken some dark—sometimes very dark—turns” and has recently inspired Canadians to join in a social media campaign to “Tell America It’s G…
October 21, 2016Photo by Steve Halama/UnsplashNews, Reviews, and Interviews The Oklahoma Arts Council has announced the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award, and World Literature Today is among the recipients for…
October 14, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Bob Dylan (a 2012 finalist for Neustadt Prize) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for having created new poetic expressions within the great Amer…
October 7, 2016News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2016 National Book Award finalists have been announced! WLT contributor Viet Thanh Nguyen and NSK Neustadt Prize finalist Jacqueline Woodson are among the twe…
September 30, 2016News, Reviews, and InterviewsVia the Boston Review, Rafia Zakaria presents a new series titled Reading Other Women that will focus on “reading as self-making.”The third annual Festival Albert…
September 23, 2016News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn this PBS News Hour interview, the newly sworn-in librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, talks about being a “feisty fighter for freedom” and the first woman and African A…
September 16, 2016Open books. Photo by Patrick Tomasso/UnsplashNews, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2016 National Book Awards longlist is now online, and the finalists will be revealed on October 13. Chicano author…
September 9, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Three Percent has announced the judges for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award, and the guidelines for eligibility and submissions are online as well. WLT c…
September 2, 2016Interior of the DOKK1 library in Aarhus, Denmark. Photo by Zorro2212/WikimediaNews, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship winners have been a…
August 26, 2016Photo by Syd Wachs/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The September issue of WLT is here! Get your print or digital copy, or read the entire issue on the website for only $1.25…
August 18, 2016Photo by Eli Samuelu/UnsplashNews, Reviews, and Interviews For #WITmonth, Words Without Borders lists 31 women authors in translation to read now. A “working-class academic” reports…
August 12, 2016From the Carl Albert Center Congressional Resources Center. Wilburn Cartwright Collection, Photographs Series, Box 2, Item 191News, Reviews, and Interviews In this Big Think video, NSK Neustadt P…
August 5, 2016The Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Lauro Maia/FlickrNews, Reviews, and InterviewsInternational visitors to the Rio 2016 Olympics can leave a little of their country’…
July 29, 2016News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Finalist J. M. Coetzee is a past WLT contributor and was our 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow.PEN America has a…
July 22, 2016Radio Atlas use subtitles to translate various forms of audio.News, Reviews, and InterviewsRadio Atlas is a new project that aims to translate sound art without destroying the poetry of its delivery.…
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