WLT  Weekly

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Book Reviews

Beyond “Normalcy”: Sayaka Murata’s Life Ceremony

July 18, 2023 |Erik R. Lofgren
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Poetry

Modern Definitions for Modern Slavery

July 13, 2023 |Nicholas Samaras
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Book Reviews

European Jewish Intellectuals and Hellenic Ideals in Homer, Humanism, Holocaust

July 12, 2023 |Alan Levenson
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Book Reviews

Poetry Poised to Take Flight: Zuzanna Ginczanka’s On Centaurs and Other Poems

July 11, 2023 |Alice-Catherine Carls
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Poetry

I Burned to the Ground

July 07, 2023 |Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
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Interviews

Letting a Wild Ride Be a Wild Ride: A Conversation with Amy Spangler

July 06, 2023 |Ipek Sahinler, Iclal Vanwesenbeeck
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Book Reviews

A Complex and Character-Driven History: Edward Shawcross’s Last Emperor of Mexico

July 05, 2023 |Juliette Bretan
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Essay

The Braschian Wave: All the Solitude of an Empire in a Bottle Thrown into the Sea

June 29, 2023 |Carlos Labbé
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Creative Nonfiction

The Little Despairs of Despedidas

June 28, 2023 |Andrew Zubiri
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Poetry

Fictional Translations: Pablo Neruda’s “Oda al actor”

June 27, 2023 |Ilan Stavans
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Essay

Mothers Inc. (an excerpt)

June 21, 2023 |Kat Meads
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Literary Tributes

Tribute to a Grand Lady: Dolores K. Neustadt (1928–2023)

June 20, 2023 |Robert Con Davis-Undiano
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Poetry

Juneteenth: Let Freedom Ring

June 19, 2023 |Hannibal B. Johnson
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Book Reviews

Finding Freedom amidst Climate Collapse: Jem Bendell’s Breaking Together

June 15, 2023 |Simona Vaitkute
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Poetry

Two Poems from Brazil

June 14, 2023 |Ana Martins Marques
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Fiction

Things That Disappear (an excerpt)

June 13, 2023 |Jung Yong-jun