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Nona Faustine, In Praise of Famous Men No More,
2019, courtesy of the artist and Two Palms, © by Nona Faustine
In Fantasy America, a new exhibit at The Warhol, five cross-disci…
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IN HER FOREWORD to The Town Slowly Empties (Headpress, 2021), Sasha Dugdale describes this slim hybrid as the author’s “lyrical diary of lock…
December 14, 2020Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly moved fr…
During quarantine, when not watching the news or reading a novel, I find my daily vision drawn to immediate surroundings: geese touching down in the parking lot where we safely walk (no need to come w…
December 10, 2019In 2019 WLT continued publishing fiction, poems, interviews, and essays in translation—publishing more than 50 pieces from languages ranging from Albanian to Zoque—along with pieces by tran…
March 19, 2019PHOTO: Edward Hill A prolific translator, playwright, novelist, and essayist from Singapore, Jeremy Tiang is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Grant, an NEA Literary Translati…
January 14, 2019The Bookshop Band is traveling from Wigtown, Scotland, for its first US tour this week. Folk duo Ben Please and Beth Porter write and perform songs inspired by books using a va…
In her densely layered, often two-sided canvases, Australian artist Helen Johnson invites viewers into an ongoing critique of Australia’s colonial legacy. With exhibits in London, Los Angeles, a…
Photo: Kake/Flickr Born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now dividing his time between Lagos and Berlin, Emeka Ogboh is an artist exploring migration, globalization, and colonialization through sound an…
Sigrid Nunez The Friend Riverhead Books D o the books we need find us? A few months ago, I purchased a used copy of Sigrid Nunez’s seventh novel, The Friend. The inside jacket pr…
December 11, 2018As the year’s news of rising nationalistic strains and attacks against the press continued, the urgent need for translation became ever more apparent. More and more, translation across borde…
October 31, 2018Photo by Ernesto Rodríguez / PixabayRobert Con Davis-Undiano’s play about the Day of the Dead premiered in Oklahoma City in October, leading up to the Day of the Dead…
Photo: Ulf AndersenAuthor of the noir novel Dragonfish, Vu Tran teaches English and fiction at the University of Chicago. Also a contributor to the collection of essays The…
Hanif AbdurraqibThey Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays Two Dollar Radio, 2017 Erica DawsonWhen Rap Spoke Straight to God: A Poem Tin House, 2018 …
Photo: Carrie Lou Performing as Lusterlit, Susan Hwang and Charlie Nieland alternate lead vocals and harmonies while supporting each other on guitar, bass, synth, traditional Korean…
April 10, 2018Swedish novelist Therese Bohman is a columnist for Expressen, writing about literature, art, culture, and fashion. The English translation of her debut novel, Drowned, w…
photo: joe mazza Kathleen Rooney is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including the novel O, Democracy! and the novel in poems Robinson Alone…
Maureen Freely is currently the president of English PEN and a writer, translator, and the head of the Department of English at the University of Warwick. Freely is the English translator of fiv…
December 12, 2017Looking back on 2017, it’s easy to declare the year a success for literary translation, which continued to thrive and move in exciting new directions. Of note, Emily Wilson translated The Odysse…
Browse: The World in BookshopsEd. Henry HitchingsPushkin Press, 2016Don’t mistake Browse for a collection of breezy tributes to writers’ favorite bookshops. The essays in this little…
As much as Managing Editor Michelle Johnson loves traveling, she also loves returning home. Her summer reading list reflects a similar course this year.Elif…
December 13, 2016In our fifth annual list of “75 Notable Translations,” we again offer an admittedly incomplete collection of the year’s English translations. And again, we invite you to share your favorites from the…
Petina GappahRotten RowFaber & Faber2016 Petina Gappah’s new collection of stories is named after the street where the criminal courts in Harare sit: Rotten Row, where the powerful a…
Lidija Dimkovska. Photo by Tihomir PinterIt’s 1984 and two twelve-year-old sisters are playing a sidewalk game in communist Yugoslavia, only these sisters are unique: they are conjoined twins, joined…
Pay inequality. Sexual assault on college campuses. International acts of misogynistic violence. Sexism at the orchestra conductor’s podium. These and other headlines persist as World Literature T…
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