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Berlin poet, essayist, and playwright Esther Dischereit responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the shelling near Babyn Yar, the site of Nazi Germ…
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March 8, 2022
February 24, 2022Photo by Steve Evans / Flickr A longtime scholar, translator, and promoter of Ukrainian literature reflects on the existential crisis confronting Ukraine—and the West—today. In Pavl…
January 14, 2020Karl Schlögel has a profound, even intuitive understanding of Russian domestic and foreign politics. His view reaches both far into the past and projects likely future developments. He recognizes that…
September 26, 2017Samoylov as a soldier in the Red Army in the 1940sTranslator’s note: In June 1944 David Samoylov (1920–1990), an important Russian-language poet who was then a soldier in the Red Army, was se…
July 1, 2016Photo: Frankieleon/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews The new owner of the Elizabeth Bishop House shares why she sees the poet and Neustadt laureate’s home as “sacred.” Recent WLT…
March 25, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article on Literary Hub, Ayelet Tsabari shares why she has chosen to write in English instead of Hebrew. Recently featured in WLT, poe…
November 13, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article from the Korea Herald, translator Sora Kim-Russell points to a “dark, earthy humor” buried under the angst and sorrow in Korean literature.U…
February 28, 2014Barricade with the protesters at Hrushevskogo street on January 26, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo Sasha Maksymenko/FlickrIt was an exciting week for both World Literature Today…-
January 27, 2014Barricade with the protesters at Hrushevskogo street on January 26, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo Sasha Maksymenko/FlickrThe movement is precisely about what Nadya, the…
January 27, 2014As a follow-up to our post “Protesting on the Square in Kiev” on December 11, 2013, we received the letter below from Yuri Andrukhovych, who is on the front lines of the protests…
December 11, 2013Protesters in Kiev on December 9th. Photo by Ivan Bandura/FlickrEditorial note: In solidarity with the protesters in Ukraine, WLT offers the following selections by…- August 24, 2012This week was again full of exciting literary news, including several news items about past Neustadt and Puterbaugh participants, which we love to see! (By the way, the 2012 Neustadt Festival…
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