Photo by Demianastur / Adobe Stock The excess of capitalism is the backdrop in Rosalie Moffett’s Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025), and at the foreground: motherhood, debt, forest…

Illustrations by Cuauhtémoc Wetzka / Courtesy of Restless Books Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems (Restless Books, 2025), by Ilan Stavans, is a collection of poems th…

Mariana Sabino’s debut short-story collection, The Verdigris Stories, transports readers to many different countries. This collection of loosely linked stories features characters searching for a…

Since the moment we became readers, we have always thought that to interpret the most profound ideas of a literary work—from the multiple creations of scientific theories to the perpetual scenarios of…

Mario Meléndez / Photo by Marco Ugarte Regarded as one of the most original voices of the new Latin American poetry, Mario Meléndez (b. 1971) is a Chilean poet born in Linares. Among his book…

Shalama and Paul, Shanghai, 1950. Photo courtesy of Jean Hoffmann Lewanda I met the author Jean Hoffmann Lewanda for lunch this past November in New Jersey, not too far from her home in subur…

In this interview focused on devotional Indian poetry (bhakti), Arundhathi Subramaniam (b. 1967) discusses her interest and involvement in this genre as editor and translator, the impact…

In June 2024 Pantheon published Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour’s latest novel (see WLT, Sept. 2024, 73). The novel satirizes social media culture and turns the lives of four Irania…

Roger Allen was the first person to obtain a doctorate in modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford. After obtaining his DPhil, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania till…

Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of social justice. Tens of thousands of American…

In September, the University of Georgia Press published Japa and Other Stories, Iheoma Nwachukwu’s debut collection of short fiction. In these eight stories, Nigerian immigrants trek through…

Photo by Laurent Badessi The last time I saw Giannina Braschi was a year ago at the 92NY in New York City. The auditorium was packed—800-plus New Yorkers convening to celebrate the launch of my mo…

James Baldwin, whose hundredth birthday we recently celebrated, once declared that besides bearing witness to America’s perennial and intolerable abuse of its Black and colored citizens, his vision as…

  Photo courtesy of the author / ThreaWrites.com The Wild Fox of Yemen, by Threa Almontaser, received the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award for best first book in 2020, n…

Itoro Bassey (left) and Esinam Bediako Esinam Bediako, a Ghanaian American writer from Detroit, and Itoro Bassey, a Nigerian American writer born in Houston and raised in New England, are both deb…

I first came across Cara Lopez Lee on a listserv group (remember those!) for authors who write about Asia. Cara’s memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands: Love, Travel, and the Power of Running Away…

Lyn Coffin / Photo by Irmaguru / Wikimedia Described by Iron Twine Press as “the most accomplished writer most Americans have never heard of,” Lyn Coffin (b. 1943) is a prolific contempo…

Maureen Freely (left) & Funda Soysal (right) Maureen Freely is an author, translator, and professor of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. Among her many…

  Right photo by formulanone / Flickr T. R. Hummer, as he is known professionally but Terry to his wide group of friends, has enjoyed a remarkably multifaceted literary career over the course…

Zhang Ling is the author of ten novels, including A Single Swallow (trans. Shelly Bryant) and Where Waters Meet, the first two novels in her Children of War trilogy. Focusing on…

On March 26, 2024, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop co-sponsored an event at Yu and Me Books to celebrate the New York City launch of Parul Kapur’s debut novel, Inside the Mirror (Univers…

Charlotte Collins (left) and Ruth Martin (photo courtesy of Michael Jershov) With the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona’s project “The Novel as Global Form: Poetic Challenges and…

Carolina Orloff is a translator, author, and researcher of Latin American literature. In 2016, after obtaining her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, she set up Charco Press, where she serves as ed…

Leonora Djament has been editorial director of the Argentine publishing house Eterna Cadencia Editora since 2007. She holds a degree in literature from the University of Buenos Aires and is the author…

Vonani Bila with his mother and his son. Courtesy of Mark Waller, 2010. Vonani Bila (b. 1972) grew up in Shirley Village, Limpopo province, South Africa, from where he used to walk fourteen kilome…