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In this story of transhumanism, a woman reflects on how her childhood matryoshka dolls became an organizing principle for the neuroprosthetic systems she hel…
COVER FEATURE
World Lit in the Age of AI
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…
Photo by Love the wind / Stock.adobe.com This short fiction is from the collection The Woman Dies (Europa, 2025), Aoko Matsuda’s feminist tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism,…
Photo by Kevin Gutting Ilan Stavans has tackled some of the most complex literary problems imaginable, ranging from piecing together the fragmentary work of poetry composed first in Nahuatl to teas…
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…
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November 2025
In its November 2025 issue, World Literature Today showcases World Lit in the Age of AI with striking cover art by Sasha Stiles and an essay about her ongoing poem-in-residence project at MoMA. The rest of the AI special section gathers a thought-provoking mix of essays, fiction, creative nonfiction, and an interview + more than thirty reviews offering a global roundup of the best new books, the November issue is your perfect companion to a round-the-world reading tour.