News, Reviews, and Interviews
During the Edinburgh International Book Festival, author Michael Rosen asked a controversial question: what is the point of books?
To honor the country s…
Edinburgh International Book Festival
- September 12, 2014
- August 30, 2013As we celebrate the launch of the September issue this week, we aim to bring your attention to LGBT-related news from around the world, particularly as it relates to literature. You’ll find an article…
August 16, 2012The Edinburgh International Book Festival has dedicated a fair and enriching portion of events programming to book illustration. British illustrator (and occasional writer) Chris Riddell has a full se…
August 13, 2012The Edinburgh International Book Festival is off to an energetic start, and in the course of two weeks the festival will feature no fewer than eight hundred international writers in around 750 unique…- August 10, 2012This week was filled to the brim with poetry-related materials. Below, you'll find links to video poetry readings, essays on poetry, and previously-published poems that fit into today's context. Enjoy…
Recent Posts
In this interview focused on devotional Indian poetry (bhakti), Arundhathi Subramaniam (b. 1973) discusses her interest and involvement in…
Photo by Daria ShchukinaUniversity of Oklahoma student Daria Shchukina recounts her recent trip to the 2024 ALTA conference and the impact it…
In June 2024 Pantheon published Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour’s latest novel (see WLT, Sept. 2024, 73). The novel satirizes…
Next Wednesday, November 13 at 4:00 pm cst, the University of Oklahoma’s Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies will host the…
Photo by trentinness / Adobe StockHunger Strike
In the last watch
of blood and memories,
in the last neighing
of empty stomachs,
the human tree…
