WLT  Weekly

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Interviews

“The Real Thing”: A Conversation with Luljeta Lleshanaku

April 09, 2026 |Patricio Ferrari
A marble statue of Omar Khayyam
News and Events

Student Translation Prize Winners Announced at the University of Oklahoma

April 08, 2026 |The Editors of WLT
Text reads: Help WLT reach raise $10k in 24 hours. #OUGivingDay. April 14, 2026
News and Events

Help World Literature Today Magazine, Your Passport to Great Reading, Raise $10,000 in 24 Hours!

April 07, 2026 |The Editors of WLT
Lorna Goodison with the cover to her translation of The Inferno
Interviews

Journeying through a Jamaican Inferno for Our Time: A Conversation with Lorna Goodison

April 02, 2026 |Renee H. Shea
Willy Vlautin with the cover to his book The Left and the Lucky
Book Reviews

Driving with Demons: The Fragile Optimism of Willy Vlautin’s The Left and the Lucky

March 31, 2026 |Ramtin Ebrahimi
Text reads: Special Zoom conversation and launch event. US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Wendy Call, Noh Anothai, Kola Tubason, and Daniel Simon
News and Events

Translating and Publishing World Literature: Editors’ Roundtable to Feature U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze

March 26, 2026 |The Editors of WLT
Cynthia Marangwanda with the covers to her books The Toppling and Shards
Interviews

Creating Infinite Universes with Language: A Conversation with Zimbabwean Cultural Activist, Writer, and Performance Poet Cynthia Marangwanda

March 24, 2026 |Mbizo Chirasha
Shanta Acharya with the cover to her book Dear Life
Book Reviews

Irrefutably Human: Dearness as Both Cost and Affect in the Poetry of Shanta Acharya

March 19, 2026 |Shyamasri Maji
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Fiction

The God of the Donated Clothes Magazine

March 17, 2026 |Admir Skodo
David Rigsbee and the cover to his book The Watchman in the Knife Factory
Book Reviews

The Dancers and the Dance: David Rigsbee’s Watchman in the Knife Factory

March 12, 2026 |Tim Hunt
Dolphins swimming to the surface
Fiction

Why Does the Ocean Appear Motionless from an Airplane?

March 11, 2026 |Zsuzsa Selyem
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Culture

Stubbornly Analog

March 10, 2026 |Rob Vollmar
A photo of Daniel Simon, "A Compass on the Navigable Sea" book cover, and eight writers who will be helping launch the book March 23-27
News and Events

East Coast Book Tour to Promote World Literature Today Centennial Anthology

March 05, 2026 |The Editors of WLT
Gisela Heffes with the cover to her book in translation Crocodiles at Night
Interviews

“Poetry Can Be Conceived as an Art of Disruption”: A Conversation with Gisela Heffes

March 04, 2026 |Claudia Cavallin
Yuki Tanaka with the cover to his book Chronicle of Drifting
Interviews

Poetry Adrift between Japan and the US: In Conversation with Yuki Tanaka

March 03, 2026 |Miho Kinnas
Octavio Paz (left) and William Banowsky holding the 1982 Neustadt Prize silver feather
Book Reviews

First Takes and New Horizons: The Oklahoma Debut of A Compass on the Navigable Sea

March 02, 2026 |Amit R. Baishya