A refugee’s shoes are worn, wet, and muddy after a long journey. These shoes are owned by Ali, a Yazidi refugee who traveled from Iraq to Preševo, Serbia, to avoid persecution (photo by Meab…

Photo by Eli Samuelu/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews  For #WITmonth, Words Without Borders lists 31 women authors in translation to read now.  A “working-class academic” reports to VI…

Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews  On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in re…

News, Reviews, and Interviews  Via Utne Reader, 2016 Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić shares about the experience of being a finalist—and then winner—for a big literary prize, her st…

Photo: Comfreak/Pixabay News, Reviews, and Interviews Archivists discovered unpublished works by Pablo Neruda in 2014, and those works will be published in English this May in a collection titled…

Evgeni Zotov, “Different Ways,” Aleppo, November 14, 2010 In her first novel, Amal (“Hope” in Arabic, published by Nūn Press in 2014), the young Syrian novelist Dina Nisrini takes an origina…

Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli. Photo by Neil Weightman. “Whoever is uprooted, uproots others.” Simone Weil’s wise words to Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, in 1943, with France still…

News, Reviews, and Interviews In this new video interview, United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera converses about poetry and the poet’s role in American culture today.  The Man Booker Prize r…

Self-portrait w/ iPhone. Courtesy of the author. @ war you cannot say yeah I participate in the war but I isolate myself I separate myself I sing & I celebrate #I I I it is not…

Andrés Neuman, the 2014 Puterbaugh Fellow, will be visitingWLT at the University of Oklahoma March 26-28th. All this week, we’ve been preparing for the Puterbaugh Festival, where we will be…

We’re ushering in the new month and the change of weather with literary links inspired by fall. Below, you’ll find more speculation on the Nobel Prize (to be announced sometime soon), a plethora of au…

This week we’re celebrating the unveiling of the National Book Award longlists, which highlight great authors and poets in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult literature. We…

This week we said goodbye to two literary giants: first to Seamus Heaney, who passed away this week at the age of 74. We also lost Frederik Pohl this week, champion of the sci-fi genre with a career…

In 2007 Persian English translator and writer Raha Namy set off on a bicycle ride through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, coming to a stop at the Occupied Territories of the West Bank (Israel). She an…

There’s plenty of intellectual stimulation in this week’s links; join us now to delve into the deep theoretical recesses of literature and poetry. News, Reviews, and Interviews We oft…

So many longlists, shortlists, finalists, and winners were announced for various literary prizes this week. Look below for links to prize announcements and commentary from people across the web and th…

The world of literature never rests. This busy week was filled with new podcast lectures, new author interviews, and a new translation of a very old publication. Stay tuned to find out what's new next…