WLT  Weekly

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Essay

Roberto Bolaño’s Tantrums

February 28, 2022 |Ilan Stavans
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Current Events, Essay, Poetry

Ukraine Needs the World’s Love, Help, and Prayers Now

February 24, 2022 |Michael M. Naydan
A screen capture from the fifth episode of WLT Book Buzz, featuring hosts Laura Hernandez and Bunmi Ishiola
News and Events

WLT Book Buzz Episode #5 - Black Voices: 41 Books for Everyone of Any Age from Black Joy to History to Empowerment

February 24, 2022 |WLT
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Book Reviews

Bringing Light to the Situation of Kurdish Women: Chinur Sa’idi’s Hobbies of Mr. Like-a-Man

February 23, 2022 |Zakarya Bezdoode
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Book Reviews

Robin Davidson’s Mrs. Schmetterling, Quiet Revolutionary

February 22, 2022 |Alice-Catherine Carls
Culture

Remembering Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal

February 21, 2022 |Ashutosh Potdar
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Interviews

Finding Refuge and Inspiration in the “City of Bridges”: A Conversation with Tuhin Das

February 16, 2022 |Michelle Johnson
A black and white photograph of author Julie Otsuka
Interviews

Inching toward the Personal: A Conversation with Julie Otsuka

February 15, 2022 |Renee H. Shea
A photograph of Samrat Upadhyay juxtaposed with the cover to his book's Buddhas Orphans and Mad Country
Interviews

Nepal and Pan-Nepalese Identity: A Conversation with Samrat Upadhyay

February 14, 2022 |Koushik Goswami
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Interviews

Half Black, Half Blacker: An Interview with Blues Poet Sterling Plumpp

February 09, 2022 |John Zheng
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Interviews

Cards on the Table: Three Contemporary Italian Women Writers Open the Doors of Their Workshops

February 08, 2022 |
A photograph of the interior of city alley. Here, a collection of used mannequins gather outside of a stone archway
Fiction

Thirty-Six

February 08, 2022 |Malika Moustadraf
A photograph of a wall with the words, "No one is illegal" spray painted on it
Essay

Teaching in the Age of Intolerance

February 02, 2022 |Ilan Stavans
An abstract image of a black field with circles embossed into it, framed by gold. The image is set against a cream background.
Book Reviews

Emancipatory Queerness in the Work of Roberto Bolaño

February 01, 2022 |Erika Almenara
A photograph of figures on a beach. The photograph is heavily colored in red and orange tones.
Poetry

The End of the World

January 31, 2022 |Natan Zach
The cover to Jorge Edwards Oh, Maligna juxtaposed against a photo of Pablo Neruda
Book Reviews

Jorge Edwards’s Elegant Homage to Pablo Neruda

January 27, 2022 |César Ferreira