News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn this new video interview, United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera converses about poetry and the poet’s role in American culture today. The Man Booker Priz…
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- September 18, 2015
September 11, 2015Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by Christine Zenino/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews The Reykjavik International Literary Festival continues this weekend and features authors recently featured or re…
September 4, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews The September issue of WLT is here! Get the print or digital issue today.Science-fiction writer Liu Cixin won the 2015 Hugo Award for best novel. Check out…- August 28, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe new issue of Poetry International is now available. The double issue features poems by current Neustadt nominee Carolyn Forché; Neustadt laureates Tomas Tranströmer an…
August 21, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams.News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on in…- August 14, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsMark your calendars for the National Book Festival held in Washington D.C., which is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. The theme for this year is a quote from Thomas Je…
- August 7, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsTime magazine just released its list of the best books published in 2015 so far.Rebecca L. Walkowitz’s latest book is now available. Born Translated: The Cont…
July 31, 2015Laila Lalami. Her newest novel The Moor's Account has been longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe Man Booker Prize announced its 2015 longlist this…
July 24, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe Brooklyn Small Press Flea Market will happen on Saturday, August 1, in front of the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Check out all the event details he…- July 17, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsA new literary discovery featuring Charles Dickens’s annotations in his literary magazine reveals the identity of many Victorian authors who had been publishing anonymousl…
July 10, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsBuzzfeed’s list of Asian-American writers features 2016 Neustadt jurors Wang Ping and Porochista Khakpour.Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård was recently featured on an e…
July 3, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsNational Book Award winner and Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie will publish his first picture book in May 2016. WLT featured Alexie on the cover of the July 2010…- June 26, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsTime magazine featured a debate sure to spark interest in readers. The article asked whether or not it was acceptable to write in books as part of interacting wit…
- June 19, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsIsraeli writer Etgar Keret was interviewed recently on NPR. Keret discussed how he learned storytelling and survival from his father who survived the Holocaust.Jo…
- June 12, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsJuan Felipe Herrera was appointed the poet laureate of the United States this week. Herrera is the first Latino poet to receive this honor. Herrera also s…
- June 5, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsWe Need Diverse Books has stirred up debate on featuring more minorities in literature, speci…
May 29, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists were announced tonight! Congrats to Can Xue, Caryl Churchill, Carolyn Forché, Aminatta Forna, Ann-Marie MacD…
May 22, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe jury for the 2016 Neustadt Prize has been announced! Discover the panel of nine writers w…
May 15, 20152013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams.…- May 8, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsNigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is serving as the co-curator for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, a weeklong literature event that happened this week in New…
May 1, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Scholar a…
April 29, 2015Although A. A. Milne is best known for everyone’s favorite honey-obsessed bear, he also wrote several collections of poetry for children and adults. In honor of National Poetry Month, here’s a little…
April 27, 2015Introspection is one of the key elements of growing up and moving forward. Though the process can be anywhere from melancholy to enlightening, the importance is in the journey. Coming just in time for…
April 24, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2015 Pulitzer Book Prizes were announced this week. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr received the Pulitzer for fiction. A list of other winners is…
April 17, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsNobel laureate Günter Grass passed away in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of eighty-seven. We have a tribute to Grass written by longtime WLTcontributor Theodore Zio…
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