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David Holmgren is an environmental designer, writer, and co-creator of the permaculture concept, which uses systems theory to create by design the resiliency found in n…
Interviews
Fallenberg Photo © Cathy Raff Although Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) is arguably Israel’s most important playwright, his work is almost unknown in the English-speaking world.…
Photo: Nina Subin Happiness, Aminatta Forna’s fourth novel, is a complex love letter to London that examines with great delicacy how the city both shelters and challenges the people…
PHOTO: Melissa Lukenbaugh / Courtesy of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship I had the privilege of having a conversation with the poet Clemonce Heard while he was enjoying a piece of orange-…
View of the Kukupalong refugee camp near Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. Photo: Russell Watkins / UK Department of International Development Mayyu Ali is a young Rohingya poet, writer, an…
PHOTO: Zhang Tuo Alai is a prolific and versatile writer in contemporary China, having published poetry, short fiction, novels, and essays for more than thirty years. His novels Red…
Photo by Decado/Pixabay The following interview accompanies the excerpt from Auntie Nabat’s Bread that appears in the Winter 2019 issue of WLT. Poet, playwright, a…
Photo: Shevaun Williams Edwidge Danticat writes about death, even the most brutal, with a lyricism that reminds us of a primal paradox—within the deepest violence and loss, the life-forc…
In her densely layered, often two-sided canvases, Australian artist Helen Johnson invites viewers into an ongoing critique of Australia’s colonial legacy. With exhibits in London, Los Ange…
Photo: Kake/Flickr Born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now dividing his time between Lagos and Berlin, Emeka Ogboh is an artist exploring migration, globalization, and colonialization through sound an…
Photo: Iva Krakovic Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia, and Mother of All Questions, the short-story collection Every Moving T…
Youssouf Amine Elalamy with one of his handmade graphic cards he created to accompany the written text in Tqarqīb ennāb Born in Morocco in 1961, Youssouf Amine Elalamy is a writer and…
Photo: Scott Campbell. Courtesy of Joy Harris Literary Agency I’m sure it wasn’t coincidental, when I phoned Alice Walker at her northern California home in August, to find…
Manuel with Alice / Courtesy of alicewalkersgarden.comIn conjunction with Erik Gleibermann’s interview with Alice Walker that headlines the November issue of World Lit…
Sergio Chejfec sits in front of an art installation of his writing titled Dissemination of a Novel. Photo: Valerie MejerSergio Chejfec is an Argentine writer based in New York City. Born…
Photo: Ulf AndersenAuthor of the noir novel Dragonfish, Vu Tran teaches English and fiction at the University of Chicago. Also a contributor to the collection of essays The…
Photo: Carrie Lou Performing as Lusterlit, Susan Hwang and Charlie Nieland alternate lead vocals and harmonies while supporting each other on guitar, bass, synth, traditional Korean…
Photo: Claus Gretter/chrisabani.comChris Abani is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter whose awards include the PEN USA Freedom to Write Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy…
photo: Kodansha (Kiyoshi Mori)Masatsugu Ono is a Japanese writer based in Tokyo and the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The water-covered grave), which…
photo: shevaun williams / shevaun williams & associatesI had the privilege of sitting down with Marilyn Nelson the day before she was awarded the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literat…
photo: joe mazzaKathleen Rooney is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including the novel O, Democracy! and the novel in poems Robinson Alone. With Eri…
photo: hayley maddenBorn to an English mother and a Jamaican-Chinese father, Hannah Lowe is the author of Chick (2013), which celebrates the multicultural life of London an…
Maureen Freely is currently the president of English PEN and a writer, translator, and the head of the Department of English at the University of Warwick. Freely is the English translator of fiv…
Emmy Pérez is a Chicana poet and writer. She grew up in Santa Ana, California, and graduated from the University of Southern California. She later attended Columbia University where she r…
Jia Pingwa is a globally renowned Chinese writer who has lived through and written about major changes in Chinese society since 1978 when China launched the reform and opening-up policy. Born…
