WLT  Weekly

Memorial cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Poetry, Audio Poetry

As If We Know

August 06, 2025 |Rilla Askew
Alejandro Puyana with the cover to his book Freedom Is a Feast
Interviews

Telling a Complete and True Story of Venezuela: A Conversation with Alejandro Puyana

August 05, 2025 |Geoff Graser
Shelly Sanders with the cover to her book The Night Sparrow
Interviews

Shining a Light on Neglected History: A Conversation with Shelly Sanders

July 31, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason
A tile collage of Mohammed Choukri's book Faces
Book Reviews

Mohammed Choukri: Faces and the “Arabized” Amazigh Writer

July 30, 2025 |Brahim El Guabli
An illustration of a family that brings to mind Medieval drawings as well as cubism
Poetry

Sketch Me a Happy Palestine

July 29, 2025 |Kebir M. Ammi
An eye, rendered in black and white, peers through a keyhole shape in a salmon colored rectangle
Fiction

Rough Magic (an excerpt)

July 24, 2025 |Christopher Rivas
A collage of multiple copies of the cover to Melissa Weininger’s Beyond the Land
Book Reviews

Diaspora Israeli Culture Unbound: Melissa Weininger’s Beyond the Land

July 23, 2025 |Shachar Pinsker
A woman sits in a chair looking at the floor with melancholy
Culture

Piercing the Veil: Laura Makabresku’s Mystical Testimony

July 22, 2025 |Yahia Lababidi
Julie Masis with the cover to her book How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe
Interviews

Preserving Memory: A Conversation with Julie Masis

July 17, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason
Albert Cossary with the covers to his books Proud Beggars and The Jokers
Essay

“The Egyptian Joker”: Remembering Greek-Levantine Egyptian Writer Albert Cossery

July 16, 2025 |Gretchen McCullough
Claire Jia and the cover to her book Wanting
Interviews

5 Questions for Claire Jia

July 15, 2025 |Michelle Johnson
A man's hate sits partially illuminated by sunlight on a table.
Fiction

Infinite Absence (an excerpt)

July 10, 2025 |Ronald Ribman
A collage of covers from the albums discussed below
Culture

The Japanese Shoegaze Revival

July 09, 2025 |Toby Isaac
Elena Poniatowska and the cover to her book The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance
Book Reviews

Elena Poniatowska’s Portraits of Post-Revolutionary Mexican Writers and Artists Prove That She, Too, Is a Truly Exceptional Figure

July 08, 2025 |Ryan Long
A nebula in deep space
Poetry

We Count Humans by the Dead

June 24, 2025 |Geet Chaturvedi
Karen Fang with the cover to her book Background Artist
Interviews

Tyrus Wong’s Visionary Bicultural Aesthetic: A Conversation with Karen Fang

June 20, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason