Basma Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian author and psychiatrist recognized for her fictional works al-Ṭābūr (2013; Eng. The Queue, 2016; reviewed in WLT) and…
COVER FEATURE
Bearing Witness: Confronting Injustice through Art
Jorge Tacla, Identidad Oculta 25 (2013), oil and marble powder on canvas, 64 x 78 in. / Copyright by Jorge Tacla Translator’s note: The title of Carlos Soto-Román’s 11 isn…
Art Courtesy of Mapuche artist Eduardo Rapimán Marín Ül of Catrileo Matías Catrileo Quezada was killed at point-blank range on January 3, 2008, in the village of Yeupeco, commune of Vilcún, regio…
Laura Larson, Augustine’s Escape, Digital Color Photograph, 2019 In City of Incurable Women (Saint Lucy Books, 2022), Laura Larson continues her study of nineteenth-century photogra…
Illustration by Chris Ganda “There are presumptions, in the world as it is now framed, of who the worthy victim is and who merits the power of full witness,” writes Caine Prize winner Yvonne Adhi…
A Curse May you be eaten by Paradise! was Father Kleopa’s curse on me. Steep was the ground from his skete to the foot of the hill where I stood. The curses our people use have always been…
Holocaust Concept Jewish Shoes For Remembrance Day, Auschwitz Birkenau Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is a new and dynamic poetic voice from Poland, with six volumes of poetry and several translations on t…
worldlittoday · Ezili Şiir by Cengiz Sinan Çelik outside the wind gently flips its hair moving toward the vastness of the blue in sky-abyss outside the water in its riverbed flows i…
Fulton Leroy Washington (aka Mr. Wash), Emancipation Proclamation (2014) / Courtesy of the artist / ARTBYWASH.COM The story of how Fulton Leroy Washington became an internationally acclaimed…
September 2022
The cover feature of World Literature Today’s September issue assembles more than a dozen writers, artists, photographers, and translators reflecting on the theme Bearing Witness: Confronting Injustice through Art. Additional highlights include creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, and what to read lists from all over the world + more than two dozen book reviews and additional booklists.