WLT  Weekly

Captives by Norman Manea
Book Reviews

Odyssey in an Inkwell: A Review of Captives, by Norman Manea

March 02, 2016 |
Punctuation marks
Lit Lists

The paradoxical legacy of Harper Lee, measuring books by punctuation, and more

February 26, 2016 |
Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar.
Sound It Out

Cross-Cultural Musical Collaborations

February 25, 2016 |
Screen capture from Son of Saul
Cultural Cross Sections

Reclaiming the Body: Hitler’s Bathtub, Son of Saul, and Warsaw Uprising

February 24, 2016 |
Antonin Scalia
Lit Lists

Love letters to translation, Antonin Scalia’s literary references, and more

February 19, 2016 |
Stone faces in Cambodia. Photo by Tammy Ho.
Cultural Cross Sections

Asian Traumatic Poetics (part 2)

February 17, 2016 |
Valzhyna Mort. Photo: Tyler Christian
Lit Lists

Valzhyna Mort on the power of language, #1000BlackGirlBooks, and more

February 12, 2016 |
Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009.
Cultural Cross Sections

Asian Traumatic Poetics (part 1)

February 10, 2016 |
Wicked witch bookmark
Lit Lists

How the memoir has shaped the Black literary tradition, bookmarks with legs, and more

February 05, 2016 |
Lit Lists

New episodes of Race Matters, an interview with Joyce Carol Oates, and more

January 29, 2016 |
Reading the Foreign Victorian Beyond Britain
On Translation

Reading the Foreign Victorian Beyond Britain

January 26, 2016 |
Open book
Lit Lists

Literary tributes to Alan Rickman, a computer writing poetry, and more

January 22, 2016 |
New Books: Temperatures Rising
Lit Lists

New Books: Temperatures Rising

January 19, 2016 |
Lit Lists

Poems for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, racial inequality in publishing, and more

January 15, 2016 |
Gisela Heffes
Cultural Cross Sections, Interviews

A World of Wandering and Potentiality in a Latin American Novel: A Conversation with Gisela Heffes

January 13, 2016 |
Books
Lit Lists

A firsthand account of the refugee exodus, the Race Matters podcast, and more

January 08, 2016 |