The Once Over
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September 13, 2019 |
Fifty years ago this week, Books Abroad editor Ivar Ivask traveled to Menton, France, to announce the establishment of the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature, the forerunner... -
February 26, 2018 |
The Seer, by Maia Cruz Palileo The March issue of World Literature Today is my first foray into my new role as art director at WLT, and I could not have asked for a bette... -
October 31, 2016 |
Karen Wild Díaz / courtesy of Actionyes.org Last fall I finished translating a full-length manuscript by Karen Wild Díaz, the Uruguayan poet I’ve had the pleasure of working with since the American L... -
September 13, 2016 |
Zofia and Kazimierz Romanowicz in front of the Galerie Lambert in 1962 / Courtesy of the Archiwum Emigracji, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Toruń, Poland For more, read these four poems by Zo... -
May 25, 2016 |
Mario Vargas Llosa / Courtesy of Expansión To celebrate the eightieth birthday of 2004 Neustadt Prize nominee and 1977 Puterbaugh Fellow Mari... -
December 9, 2015 |
Victor Pelevin is one of the most interesting writers to have come out of contemporary Russia. Though not widely known in the West, Pelevin is a cultural phenomenon in his native land; his work is rea... -
December 2, 2015 |
As a longtime practitioner of the art of fiction writing and a committed reader of the works of others, I have been thinking a great deal about the impact of the proliferating film/TV industry on the... -
October 29, 2015 |
This piece appears in Music & Literature no. 6, which includes 100 pages of new literature on and by Dubravka Ugrešić. Ugrešić was announced as the winner of the 2016 Neustadt Int... -
November 26, 2014 |
Todd Stewart, Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). By permission of the photographer. On February 19, 1942, Preside... -
August 20, 2014 |
In WLT’s May 2014 issue, I was especially intrigued by the article on Mass Reading Events (MREs) by Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo. In 2010 I attended a marathon reading of Frederic T... -
July 8, 2013 |
From the poets of princes known as Beirdd y Tywysogion to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” the history, mythology, and landscape of Wales—and her border collies—have inspired generati... -
July 2, 2013 |
“Dogs bark,” writes Warren Motte, “for the same reasons that I write: it’s our way of coming to terms with things, gropingly, imprecisely, and as best we can.” Photo: Thomas Hawk/Flickr I h... -
May 8, 2013 |
Emily Johnson, Associate Professor of Russian in the University of Oklahoma’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, is a longtime contributing editor to Wor... -
December 20, 2012 |
Photo Joe Gratz/Flickr As a criminal defense lawyer with a sometime focus on capital defense who has published fiction and poetry, your issue focused on law-inspired literature was particularly grati... -
December 13, 2012 |
Reading the portfolio of law-inspired literature in WLT's November/December 2012 issue, I found myself lingering over not only the contents, but that little string of characters on the cover... -
October 8, 2012 |
Going behind the scenes of WLT’s September issue, poet, translator, and documentary filmmaker David Shook talks with Brian Hewes about making his new documentary, Kilometer Zero,... -
September 19, 2012 |
Photo by Michael McKelvaney/Flickr I read Robert Shapard’s remarks about “flash” fiction in the September 2012 issue of WLT with a great deal of interest. Having spent quite a bit of time in...
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