WLT  Weekly

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Poetry

Three Poems from Hong Kong

February 18, 2025 | Yau Ching
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Interviews

“Fictions are concentrated in the library nurtured by AI”: A Conversation with Jorge Volpi

February 17, 2025 | Claudia Cavallin
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Fiction

Critical Lovemaking

February 14, 2025 | Mika Seifert
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Book Reviews

Like Gold in the River: A Review of Radwa Ashour’s Granada Trilogy

February 05, 2025 | Gretchen McCullough
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Creative Nonfiction

The Squirrel at the Monastery

February 04, 2025 | Lana Spendl
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Book Reviews

The Childlike Daring of Ọlábísí Àjàlá, Global Citizen

January 28, 2025 | Chibueze Darlington Anuonye
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Essay

My Alma Mater Is Auschwitz

January 27, 2025 | Edith Bruck
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Interviews

“Not Knowing How to Get There Is What Makes You Great”: A Conversation with Chilean Poet Mario Meléndez

January 23, 2025 | Ming Di
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Book Reviews

Poetry as a Way of Life: Conversations with Lenard D. Moore

January 21, 2025 | Miho Kinnas
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Fiction

Three Scenes: April 6, 1939

January 20, 2025 | Moikom Zeqo
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News and Events

Mexican Writer Guadalupe Nettel to Headline Puterbaugh Festival at OU

January 13, 2025 | The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

Jewish Life in Harbin, China: A Conversation with Jean Hoffmann Lewanda

January 07, 2025 | Susan Blumberg-Kason
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News and Events

WLT Announces Best Literary Translations 2026 Nominees and 2025 Shortlisted Titles

December 19, 2024 | The Editors of WLT
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Fiction

Good Enough for Now (an excerpt)

December 18, 2024 | Jason M. Thornberry
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Creative Nonfiction

Can the Tooth Fairy Pay in Hong Kong Dollars?

December 17, 2024 | Wong Yi
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Book Reviews

Unspoken Realities of Displacement: Gunel Movlud’s The Camp: A Little Girl from Karabakh

December 12, 2024 | Lala Mammadova