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January 2026

NSK Neustadt Prize laureate Cherie Dimaline headlines the January 2026 issue of WLT, kicking off the magazine’s 100th year of continuous publication. Additional highlights inside include the first publication in English of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s “How Natanael Pays a Visit,” new poetry, interviews, essays, and more. Reviews of new books by Bora Chung, Arundhati Roy, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Hadi Abdullah, Lesyk Panasiuk, and many more round out the fabulous issue. (Cover photo by Shevaun Williams)