Lit Lists

Digital Literature Gaming List

December 19, 2016 | Jen Rickard Blair, Randy Joly

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...
The end of a literary presidency, end-of-year reading lists, and more

December 16, 2016 | WLT

News, Reviews, and Interviews Obama administration speechwriter Jonathan Reiber writes about “the end of a literary presidency” in this Literary Hub article. Guernica interviews K...
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2016

December 13, 2016 | Michelle Johnson

In 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...
Temples for the literary pilgrim, Castro’s influence on Latin American literature, and more

December 9, 2016 | WLT

Munro’s Books in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo: ThreeFishSleeping/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Quartz examines the “giant influence” that Fidel Castro had on Latin American lite...
Keeping the foreign in translated literature, Iceland’s “hidden poets,” and more

December 2, 2016 | WLT

News, 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 transla...
Verses for Hope, the National Book Award winners, and more

November 18, 2016 | WLT

News, 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, respectively....
Writers respond to the US election, the Neustadt Prize’s impact on readers and students, and more

November 11, 2016 | WLT

Students from the OU School of Drama who participated in the 2016 Neustadt Festival. News, Reviews, and Interviews Via PEN America, writers including Alexander Chee, Negin Farsad, Aleksandar Hemon, a...
The 2017 NSK Prize laureate, Peter Orner on loneliness, and more

November 4, 2016 | WLT

News, 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 Neustadt P...
Four Books about Hope and Optimism

November 1, 2016 | Jacob Coleman

In 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...
WLT wins a 2016 Governor’s Arts Award, Mary Oliver’s “full-throated” spiritual autobiography, and more

October 21, 2016 | WLT

Photo by Steve Halama/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The Oklahoma Arts Council has announced the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award, and World Literature Today is among the recipients for t...
Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, how poetry and math overlap, and more

October 14, 2016 | WLT

News, 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 America...
The National Book Award Finalists, loving your mother tongue, and more

October 7, 2016 | WLT

News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 National Book Award finalists have been announced! WLT contributor Viet Thanh Nguyen and NSK Neustadt Prize finalist Jacqueline Woodson are among the t...
Censorship that targets “diverse” books, Rabih Alameddine’s Twitter feed, and more

September 30, 2016 | WLT

News, Reviews, and Interviews Via 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 Alb...
The newly sworn-in librarian of Congress, Lynda Barry’s graphic novel art show, and more

September 23, 2016 | WLT

News, Reviews, and Interviews In 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...
Sweden’s ancient forest language, the “thrill” of etymology, and more

September 16, 2016 | WLT

Open books. Photo by Patrick Tomasso/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 National Book Awards longlist is now online, and the finalists will be revealed on October 13. Chicano author Rud...
The judges for the 2017 BTBA awards, women’s writing, and more

September 9, 2016 | WLT

News, 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 cont...
Denmark’s library of the future, Alejandro Zambra’s challenge to the literary genre, and more

September 2, 2016 | WLT

Interior of the DOKK1 library in Aarhus, Denmark. Photo by Zorro2212/Wikimedia News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship winners have been ann...
NEA Literary Translation Fellowship recipients, Cuba’s thriving sci-fi, and more

August 26, 2016 | WLT

Photo 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 a month....
A book revolution in Somalia, reading Brazil, and more

August 18, 2016 | WLT

Photo by Eli Samuelu/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews For #WITmonth, Words Without Borders lists 31 women authors in translation to read now. A “working-class academic” reports to VI...
The end of a Franz Kafka legal battle, how to receive criticism, and more

August 12, 2016 | WLT

From the Carl Albert Center Congressional Resources Center. Wilburn Cartwright Collection, Photographs Series, Box 2, Item 191 News, Reviews, and Interviews In this Big Think video, NSK Neustadt Pri...
Rio’s Olympic book donations, the Man Booker’s effect on small presses, and more

August 5, 2016 | WLT

The Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Lauro Maia/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews International visitors to the Rio 2016 Olympics can leave a little of their count...
2016 Man Booker Prize longlist, Hemingway look-alikes, and more

July 29, 2016 | WLT

News, Reviews, and Interviews The 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 ann...
If writers billed by the hour, a new interview with Etgar Keret, and more

July 22, 2016 | WLT

Radio Atlas use subtitles to translate various forms of audio. News, Reviews, and Interviews Radio Atlas is a new project that aims to translate sound art without destroying the poetry of its deliver...
The U.S. Poet Laureate’s “sudden poem,” libraries and Pokémon Go, and more

July 15, 2016 | WLT

Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in re...
The “Brexit delusion,” the evolution of the book, and more

July 1, 2016 | WLT

Photo: Frankieleon/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews The new owner of the Elizabeth Bishop House shares why she sees the poet and Neustadt laureate’s home as “sacred.” Recent WLT contri...