A Warm Welcome to WLT’s New Book Review Editor, Rob VollmarRob Vollmar and Marla JohnsonThe editors of World Literature Today each have a colored editing pencil: mine is purple, our…
Letter from the Editor
July 13, 2015
July 6, 2015Last 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 (…- May 30, 2013Recent issues of WLT have featured Tahmima Anam (Bangladesh), Marina Carr (Ireland), and Julia Franck (Germany) on the cover.Two weeks ago, in a post on Words Without Borders, Alison…
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