Alan Cheuse by Josh Cheuse | Courtesy of NPR The editors of WLT were deeply saddened to hear the news of Alan Cheuse’s passing last week at the age of seventy-five. Dr. Cheuse s…

for Adolfo Bioy Casares By Alicia D'Amico [Public domain or Public domain],via Wikimedia Commons Today, September 15, would have been Adolfo Bioy Casares’s 100th birthday. A pro…

In the middle of the nineteenth century, both Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale traveled in Egypt. Enid Shomer imagined them meeting, and the result is her debut novel, The Twelve Roo…

Hollywood celebrities pass away in groups of three, they say; in the literary world, this phenomenon seems to happen in pairs. This past week, we said goodbye to two more literary figureheads: first,…

Illustration by Jen Rickard On March 13 fiction star Amelia Gray will perform in Boston at the seven-year anniversary of the raucous phenomenon known as the Literary Death Match, a monthly competitio…

Photo by Michael McKelvaney/Flickr I read Robert Shapard’s remarks about “flash” fiction in the September 2012 issue of WLT with a great deal of interest. Having spent quite a bit of time in…

As a special treat this Monday, we're delighted to share a clip from the audiobook of Israeli author Etgar Keret's newest collection of short stories, Suddenly, a Knock on the Door. Ira Glass…

Twitter is perhaps the most dynamic social media platform available on the web. The Twitterverse is daily flooded with estimates of over 340 million bite-sized messages from its users, which total to…

Nathan Englander and Etgar Keret at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Israeli author Etgar Keret and American author and translator Nathan Englander spoke in fervor and friendship about the a…