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Literary Activism

50 Years of Literary Activism: The WLT Readers’ Poll

August 01, 2019 |

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Investigating Women Crime Writers: Four Audio-interviews

July 29, 2019 |

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Flamingo #13 of the Caspian Sea

July 25, 2019 |

A photo of Amit Chaudhuri juxtaposed with the cover to his book Friend of My Youth

Amit Chaudhuri’s Autofictive Bombay

July 24, 2019 |

Dipika Mukherjee leans over a railing, smiling, as she looks at the camera

Cultural Cross Sections

Five Weeks in Rimbun Dahan

July 23, 2019 |

The nine finalists for the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, arranged in a nine panel grid

News and Events

Nominees Announced for $50,000 “American Nobel”

July 21, 2019 |

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Women Writing Taiwan

July 18, 2019 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

The Writers Who Left: Cuban Exile and What Comes Next

July 10, 2019 |

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Creative Nonfiction

By Marginalia et al.

July 08, 2019 |

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Twelve Egyptian Poems

July 05, 2019 |

The covers to A Mortuary of Books and The Archive Thief

People of the Books

July 03, 2019 |

A photograph of Shadab Zeest Hashmi juxtaposed with the cover to her book Ghazal Cosmopolitan

Of Grit and Grandeur: Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Ghazal Cosmopolitan

June 27, 2019 |

A photograph of the Kadesh peace treaty juxtaposed with a photo of Veysel Donbaz

The Kadesh Peace Treaty and Translating Peace: A Conversation with Anthony Spalinger and Veysel Donbaz

June 26, 2019 |

Tenzin Dickie, smiling

Of Tibetans’ Disenchantment, Reclamation, and New Literacy Space: In Conversation with Tenzin Dickie

June 25, 2019 |

The poet Phoebe Giannisi and translator Brian Sneeden

Three Greek Poems (WLT Translation Prize – Poetry)

June 20, 2019 |

Author Gunter Silva and translation prize winner Samantha Vila

Herford (WLT Translation Prize Winner – Fiction)

June 20, 2019 |

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