World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will confer the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature on the M…
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- The University of Oklahoma’s Center for Middle East Studies; Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and World Literature Today will sponsor a talk and Q&A with Dr.…
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Cardenal reading in Pablo Neruda’s La Chascona, 2009 / Photo by Roman Bonnefoy / WikipediaA review of Ernesto Cardenal’s Homage to the American Indians, trans. Monique Altschul & Carlos A…
- On November 18, 2023, World Literature Today and Latin American Literature Today partnered with Rocío Durán-Barba and the “RESISTIR Groupe” of Latin American PEN Centers to host a h…
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Photo courtesy of Sholeh Wolpé“Much of the most interesting postrevolutionary fiction being written in Persian is by women, and Shahrnush Parsipur is one of the bright lights among them. First issued…
- Lucy Coleman and Madeline Jones, winners of the 2024 Student Translation PrizesWorld Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and cult…
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Photo courtesy of Victor Adewale / OlongoAfrica“This distinguished Nigerian playwright’s account [Wole Soyinka’s The Man Died] of his prolonged season in hell as a detainee of the Federal Government d…
- The first US anthology celebrating the breadth of literary translators’ work debuts today (April 9, 2024). Best Literary Translations is a new annual featuring the year’s best poetry, short fiction, a…
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Photo courtesy of Søren Solkær, Black Sun #149, Rome, ItalyWe could not resist sharing this remarkable photograph. Søren Solkær (b. 1969) is a Danish photographer. After completing his degree…
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“This article began with a zombie. Had it not been for the zombie, I wouldn’t have opened the way I did, nor said what I am about to say, nor compared what I am about to compare. I would have written…
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Photos by Parker Buske [The gallery may take up to a minute to load. In the interim, check out our Flickr to see more photos of the festival] Over the course of three days (October 23–25, 2…
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“Between the political mentality and the pure intellect there are inevitable differences. The political mind seeks to dominate the relative or the accidental, as the navigator, expert in winds and the…
- For years, a prognostication by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe appeared on the masthead page of World Literature Today: “These journals, as they reach a wider public, will contribute most eff…
- On Saturday, November 18 at 10am cst, the “RESISTIR Groupe” of Latin American PEN Centers, World Literature Today, and Latin American Literature Today will co-host an event,…
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Arpino, Cicero’s birthplace, is about 100 kilometers southeast of Rome.These studies [of literature] are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort o…
- World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will host a book signing with Native writers Chelsea T. Hicks…
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Prince Shakur When They Tell You to Be Good Tin House This debut memoir made many best-of-fall lists and won the Hurston/Wright Crossover Award. Shakur’s memoir charts his political coming of age, com…
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Whitman Road, Nebraska Sandhills | Photo © Michael Forsberg | www.michaelforsberg.comSometimes referred to as “flyover states,” the states of the middle US are home to much worth seeing, including des…
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So many books, so little time—even in the summer. Of the many new choices, here are six that caught our eye, a handful of fiction and nonfiction that promises reflection, adventure, and, yes, even fun…
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“The French critic Albert Thibaudet proposed in one of his books on the novel a distinction between two kinds of reader: the liseur and the lecteur. I do not know whether a similar differentiating nua…
- Isobelle Ouzman, Peace for Ukraine (2022; detail), miniature plain paper journal, ink, color pencils, art knife, glue / isobelleouzman.com / By permission of the artistWhat’s the best book gi…
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Photo by Leiada Krozjhen / Unsplash“People who love books find it difficult to get along without them, but millions in the war-devastated areas today are forced to live, work, and study with practical…
- Photo by Jens Maes / Unsplash There has been plenty of handwringing among some over whether it’s too soon to write pandemic literature, but these five books answer that question with a firm no. Each…
- The editors of World Literature Today are nominating the May/June 2022 “Muses” issue for the annual Best Cover Contest sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the principal or…