WLT  Weekly

A photograph of a woman holding a baby. Her face is in shadow
Fiction

For the Child’s Sake

June 22, 2021 |Tove Ditlevsen
Dipika Mukherjee with her father, Kalidas Mukherjee
Pandemic Dispatches

Tears and Song

June 18, 2021 |Dipika Mukherjee
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Book Reviews

The Weight of Remembering: On Yang Jisheng’s History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

June 17, 2021 |Ping Zhu
An illustration of a man and woman embracing. Both are wearing surgical masks
Pandemic Dispatches

Pandemic Love (in 13 Romance Tropes) March 2020–2021

June 16, 2021 |Laura Bernstein-Machlay
Photographs of the ten Neustadt finalists. The finalists are listed in the caption of the image.
News and Events

World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

June 15, 2021 |WLT
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Poetry

The Old Man

June 10, 2021 |Kebir M. Ammi
A detail of the cover to The Kolkata Cadence: Contemporary Kolkata Poets
Book Reviews

Poetic Points of Being in The Kolkata Cadence

June 09, 2021 |Dustin Pickering
A photograph of a front of a house. The house is built in brick with green plants accenting the stairs leading to the door.
Fiction

The Most Beautiful House in the Neighborhood

June 07, 2021 |Kristina Gavran
A black and white photo of a man in a business suit perched on the edge of a dam with a fishing pole draped over its edge, the line disappearing into the water below
Poetry

WLT Student Translation Prize – Poetry by Yu Jian

June 03, 2021 |Yu Jian
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Interviews

Poetry and Nursing in the Filipino Diaspora: A Conversation with Romalyn Ante

June 02, 2021 |Marianne Chan
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Culture

The Children of Greenwood

June 01, 2021 |J’aime Griffith
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Book Reviews

Deborah Harkness’s Witches, from Page to Screen

May 27, 2021 |Camille Thompson
A photograph of Ewa Lipska juxtaposed with the cover to her book Dear Ms. Schubert
Book Reviews

Poetry as Sounding Board: Ewa Lipska’s Dear Ms. Schubert

May 26, 2021 |Alice-Catherine Carls
The cover to Scott Ellsworth's The Ground Breaking superimposed over a typewritten eyewitness account of the massacre
Book Reviews

Writing the History of the Tulsa Race Massacre Narrative

May 24, 2021 |Rob Vollmar
Photographs of Yu Jian, Xin Xu, Albertine M. Itela, and Mariah Rust. The text identifies Xu and Rust as winners of the WLT Translation Prize
News and Events

World Literature Today Announces 2021 Student Translation Prize Winners

May 20, 2021 |The Editors of WLT
A photograph of Sulaiman Addonia juxtaposed with the cover to his book Silence Is My Mother Tongue
Interviews

“Silence Became My Mother Tongue”: A Conversation with Sulaiman Addonia

May 18, 2021 |Anderson Tepper