Welcome back to our weekly literary roundups! The year has gotten off to an exciting start with WLT’s 90th anniversary, and lots of interesting things are happening in the literary world. He…
Refugee
January 8, 2016- August 8, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews Since 2011, fierce Taliban rule in Pakistan has silenced traditional Pashtun poets. Now, migrating from the region, a group of about 50 poets are defying…
November 21, 2012Photo Flickr/NedraI “Thanks-giving,” said Mr. K., my seventh-grade English teacher. “Repeat after me: Thanksgiving.” “Ssshthanks give in,” I said, but the word tumbled and hissed, turning my mouth in…
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Photo by Daria ShchukinaUniversity of Oklahoma student Daria Shchukina recounts her recent trip to the 2024 ALTA conference and the impact it…
In June 2024 Pantheon published Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour’s latest novel (see WLT, Sept. 2024, 73). The novel satirizes…
Next Wednesday, November 13 at 4:00 pm cst, the University of Oklahoma’s Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies will host the…
Photo by trentinness / Adobe StockHunger Strike
In the last watch
of blood and memories,
in the last neighing
of empty stomachs,
the human tree…
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday…
