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Poet Mai Mang shares these two poems in the wake of the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massac…
Short Stories
June 3, 2016
February 17, 2015Mia Couto photographed by Shevaun Williams, October 2014. The Mia Couto short-story collection I’m currently translating, entitled Estórias Abensonhadas (working title: Selected…- January 22, 2015A cover feature on Iranian exile lit featuring Moniro Ravanipour, Omid Fallahazad, Mohsen Emadi, and Mana Neyestani, guest-edited by Persis Karim plus Roberto Fernández Retamar’s reading rec…
September 23, 2014Photo by Nèg Foto Whether you’re looking for a quick escape on your midday break or a quiet lunch with that always entertaining friend, literature, this list includes five short works of fiction that…- September 12, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews During the Edinburgh International Book Festival, author Michael Rosen asked a controversial question: what is the point of books? To honor the country s…
- August 22, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews After years of civil war and conflict, Afghan refugees are beginning to return home and bring with them waves of migrant literature. The 2014 PEN/Heim Fu…
- August 1, 2014News, Reviews, and Interviews Is literary translation something that can be taught? Translator Katy Derbyshire shares her thoughts on the subject and the BCLT summit. International au…
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In this interview focused on devotional Indian poetry (bhakti), Arundhathi Subramaniam (b. 1973) discusses her interest and involvement in…
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…
