The Native American Studies Department at OU welcomed Cherie Dimaline with a Round Dance / October 20, 2025
In addition to chairing the Native American Studies Department at OU and teaching the…
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For a roundtable conversation devoted to Cherie Dimaline’s work that ended with the author gifting pieces of jewelry to the panelists, Kimberly Wieser-Weryackwe tied together themes of storytellin…
The Marrow Thieves vocalists/narrators Nicole Van Every (left) and Tracey Gregg-Boothby (right) with Cherie Dimaline / Photo by Ioannis Andriotis The 2025 NSK Prize c…
It’s 2017. I am a relatively new author wandering through the glittering chaos of a Vancouver Writers Fest gala. She is Chrie Dimaline; a goddess in the literature scene, winning each award there is;…
Abdullah Hazbar is seen from outside of a tent in an IDP camp in Kirkuk, Iraq. On January 27, 2015, Abdullah was wounded by an Iraqi airplane bombing when he left the village with his family during…
Radiohead / Photo by Johnny Greig / Alamy.com Music can reach parts of the soul that have never been touched, leading to new revelations. Here, a classical musician traces the influence of Radi…
Photo by oraziopuccio / Unsplash.com The news from Russia and Ukraine, places to which Yana Kane is linked by her own past and family roots, touches her deeply. For the past three years,…
Photo of KL Lake Gardens by svetlanamarkova / Adobestock.com Malaysia is among the most multilingual countries in the world, given the peninsula’s key role in the historical oceanic trade. Malaysia…
Still from Franz / imdb.com A writer and musician from Gdańsk, Poland, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski collaborated on Franz with Agnieszka Holland, a filmmaker who in the dark times of…
Photo by Yermek Sherkhan / Unsplash.com Now a writer and university professor, Iheoma Nwachukwu played professional chess in Nigeria for ten years. Here he considers what chess’s more rigorous…
Photo by Oscar McGlone / Unsplash.com We are not in the era of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, robots (or reboots), WhatsApps, Zooms, Facebooks, or anything of the kind. We are in the a…
Photo by Gerd Altmann / Pixabay.com Do we want to live in a society in which humans are increasingly pushed aside, de-skilled, and demoralized? The author looks at literary translation as a tes…
Artwork by local_doctor / Stock.adobe.com Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden…
Installation view of A Living Poem, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 2025 / Photo by Jonathan Dorado In her ongoing show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Sasha Stiles and h…
Photo by eugen / Stock.adobe.com A frequent WLT contributor faces a quandary likely faced by book reviewers, and avid readers, everywhere: which books to take with them when moving hou…
Photo of Tumbalá, Chiapas by Carol Rose Little Bringing together her practices as a translator and interpreter, a linguist is challenged to hold space for voices not her own and to reckon with…
We asked Ming Di to take a look at how US poets have been reviewed in China for the past decade. The results provide a window into what reviewers are seeing in US poets’ work and which poets are m…
Photo by Yury Nam / Unsplash.com The owner of a small, independent press considers the role of book reviews in getting books into readers’ hands.In March, Publishers Weekly—one of…
Photo by lucadp / Stock.adobe.com A longtime publisher of books in translation—and reviewer of translations who reads some one hundred translations a year—offers some best practices for reviewi…
Photo courtesy of Fotografía de autor desconocido., Public domain / Wikimedia Commons How do book reviews affect writers—for better, for worse, not at all? After receiving few and most…
Still courtesy of IMDb What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing…
A writer and his family become part of the modern saga of displacement and find themselves among a menagerie of companions.As we left the house, our panting was so loud, it sounded like the h…
Photo by Abdel Hakeem After seeking safety in Cairo, relentless questions remain: Is there a return? Will hunger haunt my children again?The journey of survival was never ordinary—it was a…
Photo by Emad Nassar A writer living in Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza faces great loss with no way to say goodbye.When writing about Gaza, one must purify the pen seven times, one time with…
Photo by Abed Rahman A writer in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza contemplates the many losses across multiple displacements and what the destruction wrought on Gaza says about the nature of t…
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