WLT  Weekly

Willy Vlautin with the cover to his book The Left and the Lucky
Book Reviews

Driving with Demons: The Fragile Optimism of Willy Vlautin’s The Left and the Lucky

March 31, 2026 | Ramtin Ebrahimi
Text reads: Special Zoom conversation and launch event. US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Wendy Call, Noh Anothai, Kola Tubason, and Daniel Simon
News and Events

Translating and Publishing World Literature: Editors’ Roundtable to Feature U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze

March 26, 2026 | The Editors of WLT
Cynthia Marangwanda with the covers to her books The Toppling and Shards
Interviews

Creating Infinite Universes with Language: A Conversation with Zimbabwean Cultural Activist, Writer, and Performance Poet Cynthia Marangwanda

March 24, 2026 | Mbizo Chirasha
Shanta Acharya with the cover to her book Dear Life
Book Reviews

Irrefutably Human: Dearness as Both Cost and Affect in the Poetry of Shanta Acharya

March 19, 2026 | Shyamasri Maji
A close-up on a padlock on a chain holding a link fence closed. A building can be made out in the unfocused background
Fiction

The God of the Donated Clothes Magazine

March 17, 2026 | Admir Skodo
David Rigsbee and the cover to his book The Watchman in the Knife Factory
Book Reviews

The Dancers and the Dance: David Rigsbee’s Watchman in the Knife Factory

March 12, 2026 | Tim Hunt
Dolphins swimming to the surface
Fiction

Why Does the Ocean Appear Motionless from an Airplane?

March 11, 2026 | Zsuzsa Selyem
A white cassette with the world Kobold printed on it in red. The cassette lays on a garishly illustrated text
Culture

Stubbornly Analog

March 10, 2026 | Rob Vollmar
A photo of Daniel Simon, "A Compass on the Navigable Sea" book cover, and eight writers who will be helping launch the book March 23-27
News and Events

East Coast Book Tour to Promote World Literature Today Centennial Anthology

March 05, 2026 | The Editors of WLT
Gisela Heffes with the cover to her book in translation Crocodiles at Night
Interviews

“Poetry Can Be Conceived as an Art of Disruption”: A Conversation with Gisela Heffes

March 04, 2026 | Claudia Cavallin
Yuki Tanaka with the cover to his book Chronicle of Drifting
Interviews

Poetry Adrift between Japan and the US: In Conversation with Yuki Tanaka

March 03, 2026 | Miho Kinnas
Octavio Paz (left) and William Banowsky holding the 1982 Neustadt Prize silver feather
Book Reviews

First Takes and New Horizons: The Oklahoma Debut of A Compass on the Navigable Sea

March 02, 2026 | Amit R. Baishya
Photo by Fadi Thabet of two young Palestinian girls looking over a tent surrounded by barbed wire
News and Events

WLT’s “Gaza Voices” Issue Named 2026 National Magazine Award Finalist

February 27, 2026 | The Editors of WLT
The cover to Rahul Bhattacharya’s Railsong
Book Reviews

Bombay Dreams: Rahul Bhattacharya’s Railsong

February 17, 2026 | Anderson Tepper
Julia de Burgos with the cover to her book I Am My Own Path
Book Reviews

Translating Julia de Burgos from Oblivion

February 12, 2026 | Luis Guzmán Valerio
Fiona Sze-Lorrain with the cover to her book Dear Chrysanthemums
Interviews

The Infinity of a Heart’s Expanse: A Conversation with Fiona Sze-Lorrain

February 10, 2026 | Alton Melvar M. Dapanas