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Destigmatizing Mental Illness, One Poem at a Time

November 20, 2018 |

Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

11 Books for Tolerance & Understanding

November 16, 2018 |Alan Levenson, Daniel Simon

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Spider Babies Blowing

November 13, 2018 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

The BBC’s Top 100 Foreign Films: An Appreciation of Theo Angelopoulos’s Landscape in the Mist

November 06, 2018 |

Author Tankred Dorst standing in front of a painting of a road winding up a mountain

Cultural Cross Sections

White Asparagus: Remembering Tankred Dorst

November 05, 2018 |

The covers to Third Millennium Heart and Compass juxtaposed

News and Events

2018 ALTA National Translation Award Winners

November 02, 2018 |

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Day of the Dead: A One-Act Real Life and Death Play, A Conversation with Playwright Robert Con Davis-Undiano

October 31, 2018 |

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In Gandhi’s Name

October 30, 2018 |

The cover to three books from list below with the texture of baseball field in the background

World Series Reads

October 23, 2018 |

The cover to Nebraska Poetry juxtaposed with a photo of editor Daniel Simon

News and Events

Daniel Simon Wins 2018 Nebraska Book Award

October 22, 2018 |

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Mrs. Black (an excerpt)

October 19, 2018 |

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News and Events

Margarita Engle Named Winner of the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

October 09, 2018 |

Cultural Cross Sections

Upon Learning That My Book Is Banned in Kuwait

October 10, 2018 |

The cover to Matthew Turner's book Sweden with a photo of Turner juxtaposed

A Playlist for Sweden

October 04, 2018 |

A photo of author Kat Meads juxtaposed with the cover to her book Miss Jane

Miss Jane: The Lost Years (an excerpt)

October 02, 2018 |

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No Formal Space for Intimacy (excerpts)

September 21, 2018 |

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

If Palestinian literature is truly a literature of exile—one that focuses on memory and redeeming the geography and lives shattered in 1948—the Six-…

August 19, 2025 |Fakhri Saleh

Carroll Beauvais with the cover to her book Preverbal

Translating Grief Outside Itself: Carroll Beauvais’s Preverbal

Carroll Beauvais / Photo courtesy of carrollbeauvais.com As a trauma therapist, I felt a deep chord strike inside of me while reading …

August 18, 2025 |Candice Louisa Daquin

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And Hunger Was Given Dominion over Us

Photo by Ammad / Adobe Stock This poem came to me, passed cell phone to cell phone by journalists, with the request that I help it be…

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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Cherie Dimaline to Headline 2025 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU

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

August 13, 2025 |The Editors of WLT