Lit Lists
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December 11, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The Huffington Post lists the best picture books of 2015 and gives a nostalgic tribute to NSK Neustadt Prize laureate Vera B. Williams. Robert J. Fouser takes a... -
December 4, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Literature in translation makes up 13% of the New York Times Notable Books for 2015 list. WLT contributor Claire Messud shares her reading highlights... -
November 20, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Awards winners were announced Wednesday night. The winners were Adam Johnson in fiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates in nonfiction, Robin Coste Lewis in poetry, a... -
November 13, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article from the Korea Herald, translator Sora Kim-Russell points to a “dark, earthy humor” buried under the angst and sorrow in Korean literature. Ukr... -
November 6, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Many literary translation awards were announced last week! The ALTA blog showcases the winners of the Italian Prose in Translation Award, the National Translation Award i...
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October 30, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Dubravka Ugrešić has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Neustadt Prize! Beyond Ugrešić’s win, there’s more good news for Croatian literature—the newly launched mag...
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October 16, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Catch one of our Reader’s Choice essayists Aleš Debeljak at a poetry reading October 21 at the University of Richmond. The event is part of the university’s Writers Serie...
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October 9, 2015 |
Demonstration for Raif Badawi outside the Embassy of Saudi-Arabia, Helsinki, Finland. Raif Badawi was named the 2015 International Writer of Courage this week. Photo by Amnesty International/Flickr.... -
October 7, 2015 |
We are told to look on the bright side of life, but sometimes the world is a dark place. No one understands better than these authors, whose characters encounter horrors from open-plan offices to Ukra... -
October 2, 2015 |
Jenny Erpenbeck is shortlisted for the 2015 German Book Prize. News, Reviews, and Interviews Young-adult books are often challenged. This article from the Los Angeles Times lists the 10 mos... -
September 25, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2015 National Book Awards longlist is out, and Flavorwire has compiled a post that summarizes each of the books. A recent article from the New York Times po...
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September 18, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews In this new video interview, United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera converses about poetry and the poet’s role in American culture today. The Man Booker Prize r...
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September 11, 2015 |
Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by Christine Zenino/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews The Reykjavik International Literary Festival continues this weekend and features authors recently featured or revi... -
September 4, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The September issue of WLT is here! Get the print or digital issue today. Science-fiction writer Liu Cixin won the 2015 Hugo Award for best novel. Check out th... -
August 28, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews The new issue of Poetry International is now available. The double issue features poems by current Neustadt nominee Carolyn Forché; Neustadt laureates Tomas Tranströmer a...
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August 21, 2015 |
Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte... -
August 14, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Mark your calendars for the National Book Festival held in Washington D.C., which is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. The theme for this year is a quote from Thomas J...
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August 7, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Time magazine just released its list of the best books published in 2015 so far. Rebecca L. Walkowitz’s latest book is now available. Born Translated: The Co...
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July 31, 2015 |
Laila Lalami. Her newest novel The Moor's Account has been longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. News, Reviews, and Interviews The Man Booker Prize announced its 2015 longlist th... -
July 24, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The Brooklyn Small Press Flea Market will happen on Saturday, August 1, in front of the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Check out all the event details here.... -
July 17, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews A new literary discovery featuring Charles Dickens’s annotations in his literary magazine reveals the identity of many Victorian authors who had been publishing anonymous...
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July 10, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Buzzfeed’s list of Asian-American writers features 2016 Neustadt jurors Wang Ping and Porochista Khakpour. Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård was recently featured on an... -
July 3, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews National Book Award winner and Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie will publish his first picture book in May 2016. WLT featured Alexie on the cover of the July 201... -
June 26, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Time magazine featured a debate sure to spark interest in readers. The article asked whether or not it was acceptable to write in books as part of interacting wi...
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June 19, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Israeli writer Etgar Keret was interviewed recently on NPR. Keret discussed how he learned storytelling and survival from his father who survived the Holocaust....
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