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Beginning in March 2014 and lasting for roughly two years, the Ebola outbreak ravaged the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Le…
Interviews
March 9, 2021
August 22, 2017Photo by Jonathan ArmstrongTranslator Allison Markin Powell discusses her most recent project, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and provides some insight into her approach to the…
April 22, 2016Photo: Comfreak/PixabayNews, Reviews, and InterviewsArchivists discovered unpublished works by Pablo Neruda in 2014, and those works will be published in English this May in a collection titled Th…
January 13, 2016Gisela HeffesAfter translating Ischia (2000), the novel by Argentine writer Gisela Heffes, I sat down with her to discuss how the novel—about a young female narrator on a journey…
November 11, 2015Stephanie Malia HomThe University of Toronto Press released Stephanie Malia Hom’s The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy in February 2015. T…
May 1, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Scholar a…- August 29, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsThis week, the world mourned the passing of Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim.In her first New York City appearance in over 10 years, Herta Müller disc…
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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Ibrahim…
Three days shy of her ninetieth birthday, poet, teacher, and translator Judith Hemschemeyer (1935–2025) passed away quietly in Roanoke, Virginia, far…
Alice-Catherine Carls offers a career-spanning overview of the work of Polish writer Anna Frajlich.A few weeks after having been expelled…
Nancy Berg and Marc Saperstein, Exile and the Jews: Literature, History, and Identity (Jewish…
Megha Sood is an award-winning Asian American author, poet, editor, curator, and literary activist from New Jersey. She is the author of four poetry…
