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The cover to A photograph of Azo Vauguy with the cover to his book Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril

The Bété Imaginary of Azo Vauguy

March 06, 2024 |Isaac Joslin

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Two Poems from Oklahoma

February 28, 2024 |Quinn Carver Johnson

A photograph of Katie Gee Salisbury with the cover to her book Not Your China Girl

The Many Worlds of Anna May Wong: A Conversation with Katie Gee Salisbury

February 22, 2024 |Susan Blumberg-Kason

A photograph of Hwang Bo-reum with the cover to her book Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

10 Questions for Hwang Bo-reum

February 20, 2024 |Michelle Johnson

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Hygge

February 06, 2024 |Veronica Esposito

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A Bilingual Franco-Moroccan Poem

January 31, 2024 |Kebir M. Ammi

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When Dogs Could Talk: Among Words in a State of Grace

January 30, 2024 |N. Scott Momaday

A picture of Ujjal Dosanjh with the cover to his book, The Past is Never Dead

Dalits and Caste Prejudice in Ujjal Dosanjh’s The Past Is Never Dead

January 29, 2024 |Rajiv Thind

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Creative Nonfiction

Storying the Body

January 17, 2024 |Stevi L. Smith

The cover to Redolent Rush

A Rush of Indian Stories: A Review of Redolent Rush

January 09, 2024 |Dustin Pickering

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North Star

December 20, 2023 |Alberto Chimal

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Here I Am, Lord: The Devotional Art of Maryam Lamei

December 18, 2023 |Yahia Lababidi

A black and white illustration of a hand emerging from the ground with a string tied to one extended finger that leads to a kite in the sky above

A Bilingual Poem from Gaza

December 14, 2023 |Refaat Alareer

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Creative Nonfiction

Strange Scrawls

December 13, 2023 |Connor Lee McLean

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News and Events

Announcing WLT’s 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees

December 12, 2023 |Daniel Simon

A photograph of Miho Kinnas along with the cover to her book Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias

Poet, Translator, Mirror: A Conversation with Miho Kinnas

December 06, 2023 |Renee H. Shea

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OU’s Romanoff Center and WLT to Host Event on LGBTQ+ Representation in Russia

The University of Oklahoma’s Romanoff Center for Russian Studies and World Literature Today invite you to a free zoom conversation scheduled…

September 04, 2025 |The Editors of WLT

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No Safe Place to Say Thank You: Ambivalence and Belonging in Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee

When migrants must perform gratitude to be believed, what happens to their truth? Dina Nayeri’s memoir disrupts the tidy refugee story, turning…

September 03, 2025 |César Andrés Caicedo

The author Mel Pennant and a copy of her book jacket, A Murder for Miss Hortense

“Never hang your head, girl child, raise it up high like a so”: A Conversation with Mel Pennant

Mel Pennant / Photo by Gemma Day Mel Pennant, known primarily as a playwright and screenwriter, published her debut novel, A Murder for…

September 02, 2025 |Renee H. Shea

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Taking Stock: On Ferdinando Camon

Photo by DW labs / Adobe Stock In “crying out in his vindictive disarray, proclaiming that he has been, if not wayward, at least unassimilable…

August 29, 2025 |Patrick Autréaux

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Translating Ecology and Identity: How Wolf Totem Became a Global Environmental Parable

Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem (2004) transcended cultural boundaries to become a global environmental parable. This essay explores the…

August 28, 2025 |Qiang Pi

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