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…
Claire Messud
December 4, 2015- August 29, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews This week, the world mourned the passing of Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim. In her first New York City appearance in over 10 years, Herta Müller discuss…
- June 14, 2013So many lit links, so little time! This week’s highlights include more literary news from the protestors in Gezi Park, Turkey; some disheartening news from German-language publisher Suhrkamp; and a cr…
November 8, 2012We are pleased to officially present the WLT shortlist of Pushcart Prize nominations for 2012. The Pushcart Prize annually honors the best poetry, short fiction, or essays published in small…
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Photo courtesy of the authorWe each safeguard our possessions. Michael buries his pens inside a drawer. Rachel hides her purse. On tiptoes, I lay my…
Darlington Chibueze Anuonye and his mother, July 2005, on the occasion of Anuonye’s primary school graduationDarlington Chibueze Anuonye, a writer…
For years, a prognostication by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe appeared on the masthead page of World Literature Today: “These journals, as…
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Photo by G. S. Matthews / FlickrReflecting on a visit to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum…
Luz Vázquez and María SojobExplore Mesoamerica through a Mayan Film Festival this November at OU! There will be two events: a showing of two short…
