News, Reviews, and Interviews   This past Wednesday would have been Maya Angelou’s ninetieth birthday. Read It Forward asked several authors—among them Calv…

photo : pixabay News, Reviews, and Interviews   This month, the Poetry Coalition will kick off the series Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poet…

News, Reviews, and Interviews In this PBS News Hour interview, the newly sworn-in librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, talks about being a “feisty fighter for freedom” and the first woman and African…

Photo by Wolfram Burner/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews  Poet Mai Mang shares these two poems in the wake of the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massac…

World Literature Today congratulates its May 2016 contributor and South Korean author Han Kang for winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literar…

News, Reviews, and Interviews  The PEN Literary Award winners have been announced!  The 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners have also been announced—recent Neustadt juror Valeria Luiselli won the fict…

News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists were announced tonight! Congrats to Can Xue, Caryl Churchill, Carolyn Forché, Aminatta Forna, Ann-Marie Mac…

2013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams.…

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 representation of women in translated literature was a hot-button issue. Read about it below! News, Reviews, and Interviews A new study reveals that women represent onl…