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Volume 99 No. 4 July 2025

Not one but two special sections headline the July issue of World Literature Today: a cover feature about Mexican writer and 2025 Puterbaugh Fellow Guadalupe Nettel, plus the dossier “Gaza Voices,” guest-edited by Yousef Khanfar, which features 38 writers, poets, photographers, and translators bearing witness to humanity in a time of war. The issue also includes 27 reviews of indispensable new books; dispatches from Central Asia, East Jerusalem, Mexico, and South Africa; plus a bevy of additional essays, fiction, and creative nonfiction. You’ll be sure to enlighten your summer reading with these essential voices from around the globe. 

Table of Contents

Gaza Voices

Guadalupe Nettel: The 2025 Puterbaugh Fellow

Varia

Creative Nonfiction

Fiction

Essays

BOOK REVIEWS