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April 6, 2018 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews This past Wednesday would have been Maya Angelou’s ninetieth birthday. Read It Forward asked several authors—among them Calv... -
March 16, 2018 |
photo : pixabay News, Reviews, and Interviews This month, the Poetry Coalition will kick off the series Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poet... -
September 23, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In this PBS News Hour interview, the newly sworn-in librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, talks about being a “feisty fighter for freedom” and the first woman and African... -
June 3, 2016 |
Photo by Wolfram Burner/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Poet Mai Mang shares these two poems in the wake of the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massac... -
May 16, 2016 |
World Literature Today congratulates its May 2016 contributor and South Korean author Han Kang for winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literar... -
April 15, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The PEN Literary Award winners have been announced! The 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners have also been announced—recent Neustadt juror Valeria Luiselli won the fict... -
May 29, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists were announced tonight! Congrats to Can Xue, Caryl Churchill, Carolyn Forché, Aminatta Forna, Ann-Marie Mac... -
May 15, 2015 |
2013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams.... -
March 27, 2015 |
Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams News, Reviews, and Interviews Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conversa... -
May 24, 2013 |
This week, the representation of women in translated literature was a hot-button issue. Read about it below! News, Reviews, and Interviews A new study reveals that women represent onl...
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