Interviews

Lingering on Posted Land An Interview with Leon Rooke

By Branko Gorjup
Branko Gorjup

April 2003 WLT For each of Leon Rooke’s nearly three hundred published stories, there are another two unpublished. Those six hundred, Rooke would say, represent the more interesting part. Roo...
Walking Between WorldsA Conversation with Pireeni Sundaralingam

By Michelle Johnson
Michelle Johnson

March 2009 WLT Poet, playwright, and neuroscientist Pireeni Sundaralingam considers how migration defines a person’s identity and art’s ability to build bridges and bre...
Along the Silk Road An Interview with Yo -Yo Ma

By Michelle Johnson
Michelle Johnson

July 2006 WLT In 1998 world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Project to explore artistic exchanges and international collaborations along Sil...
A Conversation with Jazra Khaleed

By Peter Constantine
Peter Constantine

March 2010 WLT Jazra Khaleed, born in Chechnya in 1979, lives today in Athens and writes exclusively in Greek. He is among the first of a new generation of Greek writers who wer...
Humor Is My Green Card A Conversation with Sherman Alexie

By Joshua B. Nelson
Joshua B. Nelson

July 2010 WLT Sherman Alexie—poet, novelist, short-story author, screenwriter, film director, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, comedian, and more—visited the University...
A Conversation with Illustrator David Small

By Julia Tindell

March 2012
Julia Tindell

David Small Introduction by Elizabeth R. Baer The following interview was conducted by Julia Tindell, a student in a course I taught at Gustavus Adolphus College in fall 2010. English 201, “The Art...
Reclaiming What Was Lost: A Conversation with Anthony Shadid

By Matt Carney

March 2012
Matt Carney

LEFT: Photo of Shadid by Nada Bakri. RIGHT: A photo of the ancestral home in Marjayoun by Anthony Shadid. Currently the New York Times' Beirut bureau chief, Anthony Shadid has won two Pulitz...
An Interview with Sudeep Sen

By Ziaul Karim

November 2010
Ziaul Karim

Sudeep Sen I n a WLT exclusive, Ziaul Karim—executive editor of Jamini, an international arts magazine, and former literary editor of the Daily Star—sat down with Sudeep Sen to...
By Ryan F. Long

January 2011
Ryan F. Long

Juan Villoro (b. 1956, Mexico City) is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and chronicler whose work addresses an impressive array of topics with insight, dark humor, and irony: canonical Mexica...
Bridging the Two Cultures: A Conversation between Alan Lightman and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

By Alan Lightman, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

January 2011
Alan Lightman, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

In their recent exchange, physicist Alan Lightman and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein reflected on “thinking and feeling our ways beyond what we can know,” and how they devise “emotional e...
A Conversation with Carsten Jensen

By Ray Taras

May 2011
Ray Taras

Carsten Jensen (b. 1952) is a Danish novelist, essayist, and critic who writes for the Copenhagen daily Politiken and serves as a commentator for Danish television. Born in Marstal in 1952, he st...
January 2012

Laleh Khadivi. Photo by Ariel Zambelich. WLT: What recent book has captured your interest? Laleh Khadivi: W. G. Sebald and Roberto Bolaño...
By Kaitlin Bankston

January 2012
Kaitlin Bankston

In this exclusive WLT interview, poet Nathalie Handal talks about her new verse collection, the distinction between homeland and home, and her sources of strength. Poet in Andalucía ...
A Conversation with Dacia Maraini

By Monica Seger

July 2011
Monica Seger

Following the performance of her play Mary Stuart at the University of Oklahoma this Spring, Dacia Maraini invited the director, Susan Shaughnessy, and the actresses who performed the roles o...
The Romance and Reality of Paris: A Conversation with Alexander Maksik

By Michelle Johnson

September 2011
Michelle Johnson

Photo by Pascale Brevet Alexander Maksik, who moved to Paris in 2002 to write and teach, is the author of You Deserve Nothing, the first book from Tonga Books, Europa Editions' new imprin...
By Michael A. Morrison

November 2011
Michael A. Morrison

Photo by Nebojsa Babic Zoran Živković (b. 1948) is the author of nineteen works of fiction. Translations of Živković’s prose books have appeared in more than...