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Humberto Ak’abal looks down at his text as he reads aloud

Cultural Cross Sections

Nobody Sees Us: The Poetry of Humberto Ak’abal

January 24, 2019 |

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Exile Dossier

January 22, 2019 |

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Literary Tributes

Remembering Mary Oliver: The Poetics of Grieving and Comfort

January 18, 2019 |

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Ask the Evening Light Its Shape

January 17, 2019 |

Loretta Klobah juxtaposed with the cover to her book Ricantations

Chronicling Puerto Rico: Loretta Collins Klobah’s Ricantations

January 15, 2019 |

Beth Porter stands in the center of the frame, facing right as Ben Please stands just behind her, partially obscured

The Bookshop Band Tours the US: A Conversation with the Bookshop Band

January 14, 2019 |

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Rimbaud’s Spiritual Battle

January 10, 2019 |

A photo of Michael Bazzett

Michael Bazzett’s New Popol Vuh: How Language Makes Us Human

January 07, 2019 |

Ribka Sibhatu sits in a white suit and hat in front of a bush

Cultural Cross Sections

Aulò, Aulò, Aulò!: On Ribka Sibhatu

January 03, 2019 |

A Tokyo sunrise, the city bathed in dust

Cultural Cross Sections

Dust

December 20, 2018 |

A small bird perches in an orange tree

Under the Orange Trees of Gaza

December 18, 2018 |

News and Events

Announcing WLT’s 2018 Pushcart Prize Nominees

December 13, 2018 |

A collage of some of the titles featured in this year's list

News and Events

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2018

December 11, 2018 |

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The Land of Regal Elephants

December 07, 2018 |

The cover to The Freedom Factory juxtaposed with a photo of its author, Ksenia Buksha

What We Translate When We Translate Literature: On Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory

December 04, 2018 |

Poet Meena Alexander

Meena

November 26, 2018 |

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Palestinian Novelist Sahar Khalifeh: Exploring the Nakba and Gender Politics in Palestine

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Carroll Beauvais with the cover to her book Preverbal

Translating Grief Outside Itself: Carroll Beauvais’s Preverbal

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And Hunger Was Given Dominion over Us

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August 15, 2025 |Ezzideen Shehab

Antonia Lloyd-Jones with the cover to The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories

Anthologizing Polish Short Stories: A Conversation with Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a translator of Polish into English and the 2018 winner of the Transatlantyk Award for the most outstanding promoter of Polish…

August 14, 2025 |Sara Bielecki

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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will confer the …

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