News, Reviews, and Interviews Aminatta Forna, writing for the PBS NewsHour, analyzes the power of crafting one’s own narrative in the face of suff…
Lit Lists
- News, Reviews, and Interviews The sixth edition of Life and Legends magazine is now out, and the theme is contemporary Indian poetry. The magazin…
- photo : pixabayNews, Reviews, and Interviews This month, the Poetry Coalition will kick off the series Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Po…
- photo: shevaun williams & associatesNews, Reviews, and Interviews World-renowned novelist Jenny Erpenbeck is being honored this week at the 2018 Puterbaugh…
- photo: pixabayNews, Reviews, and InterviewsIn her latest blog post, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman shares the PEN International Women’s Manifesto, which was ratified at PEN’s…
- photo: pixabay / evgeni tcherNews, Reviews, and Interviews Kathleen Rooney creates a playlist for largehearted b…
- A detail from the cover to Black Panther Vol 3 #1, art by Mark Texeira and Joe Quesada. Marvel Comics.News, Reviews, and Interviews…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsClaribel Alegría, Central American poet and 2006 Neustadt Prize laureate, recently passed away. The New York Times recalls how Alegría w…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe National Book Awards will now recognize works in translation, opening its doors to global voices for the first time in the history of the award. The prize for this new…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists are out and congratulations are in order! Kapka Kassabova has been nominated for her book Border: A Journe…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn case you missed it, WLT’s annual list of 75 notable translations is now on the blog and we invite you to share what books you would add to the list by tweeting…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe “Silence Breakers” who have spoken out publicly and anonymously about sexual assault and harassment were named Time’s 2017 P…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsBuenas noticias for the Hispanic community in Los Angeles! The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) will be taking Les Figues Press under its wing to help…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsCongratulations to forthcoming WLT contributors Seth Michelson and Derick Mattern who were announced this week as recipients of 2018 NEA Literature Tran…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsAutostraddle’s list of 8 speculative fiction short collections featuring queer characters lists Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, an editor’s pick f…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsZadie Smith will be awarded the 2017 Langston Hughes Medal in Harlem on November 16. She is the New York Times best-selling author of White Teeth, On…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsTillman Miller interviewed Sokunthary Svay, the first voice of what she hopes is a new generation of Cambodian American literature.Rediscover the Khvoshchinskaya sisters,…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews This week marks the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Writing Program in Iowa! Today at noon, WLT editor in chief Daniel Simon will lead a p…
- Photo by Tanisha PinaNews, Reviews, and InterviewsKazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. He has written eight books which have been translated into over 40 langua…
- International Translation Day also marks the inaugural launch of the World Literature Today Translation Prize! The prize is open for entries through January 1, 2018.News, Reviews, a…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews In this week’s episode of the American Scholar’s Smarty Pants podcast, former Poet Laureate of the UK Andre Motion talks about his work, Jennifer Choi unear…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe National Book Awards longlist for Young People’s Literature includes previous NSK Prize jurors Mitali Perkins and Rita Williams-Garcia! Visit the National Book Awards…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists have been announced!Via the New Yorker, 2018 Neustadt Prize finalist Edwidge Danticat writes…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews Indiaeducationdiary.in provides a rundown of the Mountain Echoes Literary Festival in Thimphu, Bhutan. The New Yorker engages with the work of Norwegia…
- Photo: PexelsNews, Reviews, and InterviewsPuterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie has published a new poem commenting on the current state of America. Scroll.in comments on translations as resistance a…