Open books. Photo by Patrick Tomasso/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 National Book Awards longlist is now online, and the finalists will be revealed on October 13.  Chicano author Rud…

The Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Lauro Maia/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews International visitors to the Rio 2016 Olympics can leave a little of their count…

News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced.  Finalist J. M. Coetzee is a past WLT contributor and was our 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow. PEN America has ann…

Photo by kl801/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews  South Korean writer Han Kang—featured on the cover of the current issue of WLT—has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her no…

News, Reviews, and Interviews Catch one of our Reader’s Choice essayists Aleš Debeljak at a poetry reading October 21 at the University of Richmond. The event is part of the university’s Writers Serie…

News, Reviews, and Interviews In this new video interview, United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera converses about poetry and the poet’s role in American culture today.  The Man Booker Prize r…

Laila Lalami. Her newest novel The Moor's Account has been longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. News, Reviews, and Interviews The Man Booker Prize announced its 2015 longlist th…

After Alice Munro and Eleanor Catton were announced as the Nobel Prize and Man Booker Prize winners, respectively, new questions have arisen about women in publishing. In the links below, you’ll find…

Another exciting week in the world of literature, once again for literary prizes. The Man Booker Prize was announced this week, the Giller Prize revealed its shortlist, and the German Book Prize was a…

This week is a celebration of several new milestones: the Man Booker shortlist came out, with Colm Tóibín’s novel, The Testament of Mary, coming in as the shortest nominated book in the prize…

There was much talk of the need for various revolutions within the literary world this week, including for modern poetry (again) and for quietness. Also new this week are several literary prize announ…

So many links, so little time! We hope you enjoy perusing this week’s literary news—it should keep you pretty busy until next week. News, Reviews, and Interviews Ms. magazine…

Our links this week are rich with news from around the globe. Catch up on anything you missed by clicking the links below, and don't forget to come back next week for even more news! News, Rev…

As always, it was a very busy week in the world of literature. This week's links reach across the globe, with news from Japan, Germany, France, and England. News, Reviews, and Interviews…