Photo of Roohi Choudhry by Shiva Muthiah
Roohi Choudhry’s debut novel, Outside Women, braids the stories of two women: Hajra, a Pakistani scholar in the US in the late 1990s and early…
Interviews
- 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…