WLT  Weekly

A refugee’s shoes are worn, wet, and muddy after a long journey. These shoes are owned by Ali, a Yazidi refugee who traveled from Iraq to Preševo, Serbia, to avoid persecution (photo by Meabh Smith / Trócaire).
Poetry

Two Poems from Syria

September 27, 2016 |
Library of Congress. Photo from Pixabay
Booklists

The newly sworn-in librarian of Congress, Lynda Barry’s graphic novel art show, and more

September 23, 2016 |
Interviews

The Conversation Continues: An Interview with Alison Anderson and David Shook on Women in Translation

September 21, 2016 |
Open books. Photo by Patrick Tomasso/Unsplash
Booklists

Sweden’s ancient forest language, the “thrill” of etymology, and more

September 16, 2016 |
Tony Webster, Dakota Access Pipeline protest at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, August 25, 2016
Poetry

Noir

September 15, 2016 |
Quinn Dombrowski, “Velvet Flower,” 2008
Poetry

Four Poems by a Polish Holocaust Survivor

September 13, 2016 |
Zofia and Kazimierz Romanowicz in front of the Galerie Lambert in 1962 / Courtesy of the Archiwum Emigracji, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Toruń, Poland
The Once Over

The Renaissance of Zofia Romanowicz (1922–2010)

September 13, 2016 |
Kindle book
Booklists

The judges for the 2017 BTBA awards, women’s writing, and more

September 09, 2016 |
Senior Airman Deng Deng, Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, September 2009. As one of the “Lost Boys” of the Sudan, Deng was allowed to immigrate to the United States and participate in a language and education immersion program. His dream is that one day his whole family can join him. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lance Cheung / Flickr)
Cultural Cross Sections

Resettling in the United States: A Fiction’s Telling

September 06, 2016 |
DOKK1 library in Aarhus, Denmark interior. Photo by Zorro2212/Wikimedia
Booklists

Denmark’s library of the future, Alejandro Zambra’s challenge to the literary genre, and more

September 02, 2016 |
Ignacio Padilla (date unknown) / Source: Ibero 90.9
Literary Tributes

The Short-Story Physicist: A Tribute to Ignacio Padilla

August 31, 2016 |
On the Mexico City subway (2016) / Still from a film by Carolina Rueda
On Translation

Surrealism on the Subway: Translating “Universidad–Indios Verdes” by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

August 30, 2016 |
Booklists

NEA Literary Translation Fellowship recipients, Cuba’s thriving sci-fi, and more

August 26, 2016 |
Amit Majmudar
Interviews

Poet, Radiologist, and 007 Wannabe: A Conversation with Amit Majmudar, Ohio’s First Poet Laureate

August 22, 2016 |
Stacks of books in a room with a window
Booklists

A book revolution in Somalia, reading Brazil, and more

August 18, 2016 |
Car lights at night.
Fiction

An Archangel Named Gabriel

August 17, 2016 |