WLT  Weekly

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News and Events

World Literature Today Receives Grants from the Norman Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts

September 14, 2022 |WLT
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News and Events

Senegalese Writer Boubacar Boris Diop to Headline 2022 Neustadt Festival

September 08, 2022 |WLT
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Interviews

Learning to Be Everyone and No One: A Conversation with D. Nurkse

September 06, 2022 |Chard deNiord
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Culture

Prey: Behind the Scenes with Cinematic Comanches

August 31, 2022 |Dustin Tahmahkera
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Pandemic Dispatches

Everywhere Bergamo

August 30, 2022 |Marek Makowski
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News and Events

WLT Book Buzz Episode #7: Indigenous Voices

August 26, 2022 |WLT
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Fiction

Blood-Red Sweat (an excerpt)

August 22, 2022 |Abhimanyu Unnuth
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Essay

Salman Rushdie and the Freedom to Offend

August 16, 2022 |Andrew Martino
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Essay

How to Make a Ukrainian Easter Egg

August 15, 2022 |Thea Swanson
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Fiction

On Writing Real Life, or the Hunt for Felix Canelo’s Shadow: An Excerpt from Book of the Damned

August 09, 2022 |Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III
Covers to the ten issues of WLT discussed below
Lit Lists

100 Issues in 20 Years: A Top 10 List (2002–2022)

August 03, 2022 |Daniel Simon
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Interviews

Seeing through a Different Lens: A Conversation with Catalina Infante Beovic

August 01, 2022 |Michelle Mirabella
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Interviews

Wanting to Write a “Bonsai of a Novel”: A Conversation with Alejandro Zambra

July 27, 2022 |Anderson Tepper
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Culture

Everything Everywhere All at Once: Cinema Is a Toolbox, and So What?

July 26, 2022 |Belinda Qian He
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Lit Lists

Summer Reads 2022

July 18, 2022 |Daniel Simon
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Book Reviews

Michel Houellebecq, Political Animal?

July 12, 2022 |Kai Maristed