In Finnegans Wake, James Joyce invites us to “come into the pictures” (243.1). I’ve decided to play with his words by annotating / illustrating / disrupting the 628 pages of the book, a six-y…

News, Reviews, and Interviews  The 2016 Neustadt Festival has been announced! WLT will invite Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić to the OU campus Oct. 26-28. Katrina Dodson won the 201…

Michael Cunningham by Richard Phibbs.Courtesy of FS&G. What happens after “ever after”? Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours and A Home at the End of th…

Last week, we said farväl to our beloved book review editor, Marla Johnson, who retired after working at World Literature Today since 1992. For more than twenty years, Marla worked (…

Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams News, Reviews, and Interviews  Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conversa…

This week, the world said good-bye to Maya Angelou, beloved author and poet. You can read a tribute to her, which includes photos of her visit to Oklahoma for the 1986 Neustadt Festival, at the W…

Book transformation, letters, envelopes, and bookmarks by Marilyse Figueroa. Photos by Jen Rickard Blair. Drawn to a book by its cover, a reader decides to give it to a friend. But on her…

The 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…

 During the 2012 Salon du Livre (Book Fair) in Paris, WLT intern Marina Ruiz made her way through the many booths, panel discussions, book signings, and authors. The photo gallery above…