According to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans for the period July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, there were more than ten thousand instances of bans in US schools where students’ access to boo…
Reading Lists
In the past, regrettably, there has been a dearth of translations of Ukrainian literature available in English. This situation has dramatically changed over the last decade with numerous authors and…
Ai Weiwei 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir Trans. Allan H. Barr Crown Publishing Group Barbara Bloemink Florine Stettheimer: A Biography…
When we asked Yousef Khanfar, executive editor of the “Palestine Voices” special issue, to come up with a list of essential titles about Palestine, he shared with us the following curation of thi…
BOOKS ALSO suffer crises. The book industry in Puerto Rico has always struggled to survive. In times of recession, the situation worsens; it is difficult for cultural projects to rece…
We asked our readers, “What work of fiction, poetry, theater, or nonfiction has had the most profound impact on your understanding of climate change?” Here's what you said: “We need a new voc…
While the rapidly evolving nature of climate change means that the best sources of current data are online (e.g., United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and National Oceanic and…
TO CURATE A reading list of ten to fifteen Hong Kong books that will inspire the international reader of literature is no easy task. For one thing, ten to fifteen is an arbitrary ra…
Hanif Abdurraqib They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays Two Dollar Radio, 2017 Erica Dawson When Rap Spoke Straight to God: A Poem Tin House, 2018 Virginie Despe…
Michael Andreasen The Sea Beast Takes a Lover Penguin, 2018 Yoshio Aramaki The Sacred Era Trans. Baryon Tensor Posadas University of Minnesota Press, 2017 Lesley…
Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing ed. Allison Hedge Coke (Salt Publishing, 2014) Christopher Felver Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits (University of…
Verse Au jour le jour (1993) L’usure des lendemains (1995) La Légende de l’errance (1995) Les arbres aussi versent des larmes (1997) Quand l…
Han Kang recommends these 13 contemporary Korean books available in English. Click here to read Krys Lee's 2016 interview with Han Kang. Hwang Jeong-Eun One Hundred Shadows Trans. Jung Yewo…
Whether spent at home, driving cross-country, or venturing abroad, summer demands its own reading list. These new books of 2016 will more than fill a backseat, suitcase, Kindle, or hammock. …- Guy Peellaert & Pierre Bartier The Adventures of Jodelle Trans. Kim Thompson Fantagraphics Belgian artist Guy Peellaert’s (1934 –2008) multifaceted oeuvre included film posters (Tax…
Untrustworthy narrators twist and turn throughout literature. There are myriad reasons for their lack of reliability. Some are inherently withholding, while others carry on with thei…
In the past decade, especially, much has been written about Iranian memoirs and particularly the nonfiction of Iranian females of the diaspora. Within that, many Iranian American fiction writers (such…
While the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been going on for fourteen years, much of American literature from these conflicts is only now emerging. I appreciate the veterans who’ve woven the s…
Netanya Dror Burstein, tr. Todd Hasak-Lowy(Dalkey Archive Press, 2013) Lies, First Person Gail Hareven, tr. Dalya Bilu (Open Letter, 2015) Moods Yoel Hoffmann, tr. Peter…
Photo by Christian Holzinger/Unsplash The editors of WLT have each selected three books they’re looking forward to reading this summer. Peruse our selections to get ideas for your own summer…
Summer is here, and that means one thing: vacation! Whether you’re on a grand exploration or simply relaxing with a staycation, WLT is here to provide a getaway that you can hold in your…
Bridging Enigma: Cubans on Cuba Edited by Ambrosio Fornet This special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (vol. 96, no. 1, Winter 1997) presents Cuban reality as seen by sixt…
Happy Are the Happy Yasmina Reza John Cullen, tr. A short advance excerpt from Yasmina Reza’s new novel fairly crackles with electric wit and precise comedic timing. Her award-winning talent as a pl…
Iceland enjoys a powerful literary tradition, underpinned by the old Icelandic sagas and Eddaic poems and also by the Icelanders’ struggle for emotional and spiritual survival during centuries of pove…
As part of World Literature Today magazine’s November 2014 cover feature focusing on central European literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the editors invited 25 writers to nominate…
