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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 |
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Sound It Out

A Playlist for Sweden

October 04, 2018 |
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Fiction

Miss Jane: The Lost Years (an excerpt)

October 02, 2018 |
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Poetry

No Formal Space for Intimacy (excerpts)

September 21, 2018 |
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Book Reviews

Audrey Schulman in the Gutter of Genre

September 18, 2018 |
Neustadt Lit Fest International Books & Culture. October 9 through 11, 2018. The University of Oklahoma, Norman.
News and Events

Neustadt Lit Fest to Feature Haitian American Writer Edwidge Danticat

September 13, 2018 |
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Cultural Cross Sections

Stitching Nature and the Human Heart: The Poetry of Hélène Dorion

September 13, 2018 |
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Book Reviews

Norway’s Nowhere Man: Dag Solstad’s T Singer

September 11, 2018 |
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Cultural Cross Sections

Marc Alyn, the Quiet Monstre Sacré of French Poetry

September 06, 2018 |
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Poetry

Two Poems

September 04, 2018 |
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Cultural Cross Sections

“My ghost you needn’t look for”: Searching for Jeffers in Carmel

August 28, 2018 |
World Literature Today Launch Party, Friday Sept. 14, 6-8 pm. The Depot: Norman, Oklahoma
News and Events

World Literature Today to Host Launch Party for Music and Lit Issue

August 21, 2018 |
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Book Reviews

Decentering World Literature: Aamir Mufti’s Forget English!

August 23, 2018 |
On Translation

Circling Marguerite Duras’s The Lover: A Translator’s Note

August 21, 2018 |
The sun sets on the opposite of the Mekong River
On Translation

One Day (an excerpt)

August 21, 2018 |

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