News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Finalist J. M. Coetzee is a past WLT contributor and was our 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow.PEN America has a…
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Author’s note: It begins with a chance encounter at an airport and ends with a crash that no one walks away from.…
Melissa Weininger’s Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Wayne State University Press, 2023) is a…
Artist Self-Portrait
While war, injustice, and spiritual fatigue continue to poison the air, Yahia Lababidi finds a beauty-infused…
Julie Masis is the editor and publisher of the Russian Boston Gazette, a newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in Boston. She is…
Albert Cossery / Courtesy of New Directions
The end of June marked the anniversary of the death of Albert Cossery (1913–2008), a French-speaking…
