For WLT’s November 2016 issue, author and translator Alison Anderson explores and explains in her essay “Of Gatekeepers and Bedtime Stories: The Ongoing Struggle to Make Women’s Voices Heard…
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August 15, 2019
August 1, 2019Earlier this summer, the editors of WLT invited more than two dozen writers to nominate one book, published since 1969, that most influenced their extraliterary commi…
April 3, 2019Esther Gerritsen Craving (fiction) Trans. Michele Hutchinson World Editions In Dutch writer Esther Gerritsen’s Craving, readers follow Coco, who moves in with her dying mother as a m…- April 1, 2019To kick off National Poetry Month, I’d like to share with you five favorite poets/poems that have appeared in the magazine’s pages over the past five years. Zsuzsa Takács (Hungary), “On Vision” and “…
March 28, 2019Peter Miller, “Baseball,” April 12, 2016 / Flickr I see great things in baseball.—Walt Whitman The dawn of a new baseball season brings with it hope for all thirty Major League Baseball team…
January 25, 2019PEN America has announced the finalists for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. With so many great books, authors, and translators included, we’ve put together this roundup of WLT’s covera…
November 16, 2018Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe / Photo by Phillip Kalantzis Cope / Flickr In the wake of the October 27 mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the U…
October 23, 2018“Baseball’s time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth a…
July 16, 2018Whether going Around the World in Eighty Days or on a slightly less ambitious journey, the best travel novels go the distance by taking the reader on a tour spanning miles, countries, and eve…
July 13, 2018Liu Xia, poet, artist, and wife of the late 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, was released this week after eight years of house arrest in China. From our January 2018 issue, Ming Di writes…
June 29, 2018A section of the High Line Garden in New York. Photo: Bev / Pixabay ZEE JLF at Boulder, an international literature festival, has announced the confirmed author lineup for its 2018 festival, schedule…
June 22, 2018Photo: Pixabay Kenny Fries muses on the invisibility of people with disabilities in conversations about diversity in publishing. David Schuman of the Kenyon Review covers Aminatta Forna’s la…
June 15, 2018Writing for NPR, Karen Grigsby Bates remembers Anthony Bourdain’s humanizing influence and voice on behalf on marginalized groups. This week Pierce Alquist, writing for Book Riot, published…
June 8, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Rivka Galchen gives a fascinating account of the Oklahoma teacher strike of 2018. Galchen’s father was a professor at the University…
June 1, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Aminatta Forna’s new novel Happiness is getting rave reviews. Forna recently contributed to our November 2017 issue as part o…
May 25, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews The Man Booker International Prize has been awarded toPolish novelist Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, which will be reviewed in our…
May 22, 2018Are you on the edge of your seat waiting for the announcement of the 2018 Man Book International Prize winner? Ease back and brush up on the shortlist with reviews and interviews of the translators a…
May 18, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews ArabLit has put together a collection of five poignant quotes from Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif, who lives in Gaza, that p…
May 11, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews This October brings the 25th Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the honoree this year is Haitian American writer Edwid…
May 10, 2018On the Effects of Technological Advancement Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman (Europa, April) Dr. Francine Burk, who is currently…
May 4, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Our new issue on speculative fiction includes an extensive list of international fiction in the genre. Carmen Maria Machado and Sofia…
April 27, 2018Photo by Cayla1 on Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews Our May/June issue is online and hurtling through the global postal consortiums as we type. Our cover s…
April 20, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews Kendrick Lamar dominated Pulitzer Prize headlines this week, but some other familiar faces to WLT readers appeared as well, including Patric…
April 13, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews A rare document from the life of Marcel Proust has been uncovered and will make its public debut at the Paris International Rare Book and Fine Art Fair…
April 6, 2018News, Reviews, and Interviews This past Wednesday would have been Maya Angelou’s ninetieth birthday. Read It Forward asked several authors—among them Calv…
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