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January 20, 2017 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Last Friday, President Obama spoke about the indispensable role that books played during his presidency and throughout his life. The 2... -
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... -
February 5, 2016 |
Image: MyBookmark/Etsy News, Reviews, and Interviews This Hong Kong bookseller is keeping banned books on his shelves, selling works that are critical of the Chinese leadership. Slovenian author Al... -
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... -
June 27, 2014 |
We’ll be taking a two-week summer break from our Friday Lit Links, returning on Friday, July 18th. In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter @worldlittoday to keep up with all the latest literary...
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aya, Wesley Leonard weenswiaani. niila myaamia. As a linguist, citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, and...
Alex Jacobs, Tribal Voice – John Trudell (11 x 14 fabric collage on board), courtesy of the artist
The best description of America was made some...
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Fences
I will never think of this in the same way,
watching the woman in her daily brown skirt...
My association with the work of Józef Wittlin started when Professor Anna Frajlich invited me to write a paper about Wittlin’s association with...
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A few years ago, on a brief visit to Seville, Spain, my husband, son, and I came across an unexpected sculpture. Having...
