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Fiction

Rough Magic (an excerpt)

July 24, 2025 |Christopher Rivas
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Diaspora Israeli Culture Unbound: Melissa Weininger’s Beyond the Land

July 23, 2025 |Shachar Pinsker
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Culture

Piercing the Veil: Laura Makabresku’s Mystical Testimony

July 22, 2025 |Yahia Lababidi
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Interviews

Preserving Memory: A Conversation with Julie Masis

July 17, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason
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Essay

“The Egyptian Joker”: Remembering Greek-Levantine Egyptian Writer Albert Cossery

July 16, 2025 |Gretchen McCullough
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5 Questions for Claire Jia

July 15, 2025 |Michelle Johnson
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Fiction

Infinite Absence (an excerpt)

July 10, 2025 |Ronald Ribman
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The Japanese Shoegaze Revival

July 09, 2025 |Toby Isaac
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Elena Poniatowska’s Portraits of Post-Revolutionary Mexican Writers and Artists Prove That She, Too, Is a Truly Exceptional Figure

July 08, 2025 |Ryan Long
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Poetry

We Count Humans by the Dead

June 24, 2025 |Geet Chaturvedi
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Interviews

Tyrus Wong’s Visionary Bicultural Aesthetic: A Conversation with Karen Fang

June 20, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason
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Ananke and WLT Host “Delhi in the Anthropocene” Conversation on June 30

June 19, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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A Novelist from the Kurdish City of Earring: Asaad Zohrabi’s The Age of Lonelinesses

June 18, 2025 |Zakarya Bezdoode
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Essay

The Literary Interventions of Chibueze Darlington Anuonye

June 17, 2025 |Ugochukwu Anadị
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Poetry

WLT Student Translation Prize – Poetry

June 13, 2025 |Simone Lappert
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World Literature Today Announces Finalists for the 2026 Neustadt Prize

June 11, 2025 |The Editors of WLT

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