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March 10, 2021
March 9, 2021Véronique Tadjo / Photo © Odile Motelet Beginning in March 2014 and lasting for roughly two years, the Ebola outbreak ravaged the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Le…
February 12, 2018Portrait of Buchi Emecheta by Val Wilmer from the cover of The Slave Girl (G. Braziller, 1977)Buchi Emecheta’s novella The Bride Price should play a larger role in world literatu…
November 9, 2016Emmanuel Iduma. Photo by Dawit L. PetrosEmmanuel Iduma’s The Sound of Things to Come was first published as Farad in Nigeria. Its unusual style and ambition instantly se…
February 5, 2016Image: MyBookmark/EtsyNews, Reviews, and Interviews This Hong Kong bookseller is keeping banned books on his shelves, selling works that are critical of the Chinese leadership. Slovenian aut…
July 3, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsNational Book Award winner and Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie will publish his first picture book in May 2016. WLT featured Alexie on the cover of the July 2010…- May 8, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsNigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is serving as the co-curator for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, a weeklong literature event that happened this week in New…
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