Photo of Edel Rodriguez by Mecky Creus
In Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey (Metropolitan, 2023), acclaimed artist Edel Rodriguez illustrates a story of displacement, longing, and artist…
COVER FEATURE
Writing the Polycrisis: Dispatches from a Calamitous Planet
It is not easy to open one’s heart to the crises of the world, and to observe, gauge, and feel the impact. In The Defense of Poesy (1580), the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney pointed out that the a…
Photo by Hugo Gomes/Wirestock Creators / Stock.adobe.com It’s 2050, and five African nations have surrendered their sovereignty to form a new nation. To some, it was unfathomable that the r…
Photos by NASA Johnson / Flickr.com Marking the Wetlands by Valeria Mussio translated by Whitney DeVos & Valeria Meiller “If all this is a bay, why can’t I…
Photo by driftwood / Stock.adobe.com The offspring’s appetites know no end. What’s a mother, any mother—even that mother who nurtures us all—to do? The wound is smaller than last time, tiny…
Dead Horse Bay, 2015 | Photos by Santiago Acosta 1. One morning I left home and took the Q35 down to Brooklyn. On the phone, the blue path showed me the way to Barren Island, a man-made peninsul…
Photo of Lebanon by Patricia Abdallah / Unsplash.com “Through a sort of grating irony,” writes Charif Majdalani, Lebanon “remains a sort of model but in the negative sense of the term, because it…
Photos from the aftermath of the McDougall Creek wildfire of August 2023 by Andreas Rutkauskas After the wildfires, 2023 Grief sits in the bottom of my lungs — maybe I cradle it there so I…
Photo by Ella Ivanescu / Unsplash.com Climate change, resource depletion, extreme weapons, AI, and more: Richard Heinberg looks at the individual threats composing the unprecedented convergence of…
March 2024
With a cover illustration by Edel Rodriguez, “Writing the Polycrisis” headlines the March/April 2024 issue of World Literature Today, showcasing contributions by nine writers, mainly from the Global South. Additional highlights include interviews, creative nonfiction, booklists, essays, and more! Plus a book review section brimming with the latest must-reads also enliven the issue, making it your latest passport to the best new reading from around the world.