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A photograph of César Aira juxtaposed with the cover to his book Lugones
Book Reviews

The Marx Brothers Go to a Masked Ball: César Aira’s Lugones

July 15, 2021 |Will H. Corral
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Essay

Emmanuel Carrère’s Dark Places

July 14, 2021 |Felipe Restrepo Pombo
Friederike Mayröcker sits at a table reading with a small group sitting to the side
Essay

Meeting Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021): A Remembrance

July 13, 2021 |Sylvia Petter
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Pandemic Dispatches

Make the NBA Great Again

July 07, 2021 |Michael Don
A photograph from inside a crumbling building that looks out toward the sea
Essay

In Ruins: Reflections beyond Kuwait

July 07, 2021 |Mai Al-Nakib
The cover to the Summer issue of WLT with copy advertising the upcoming Palestine Voices symposium. Additional text reads 'Join 50 Palestinian writers, poets, artists and translators to discuss this historic issue of WLT
News and Events

July 15 Symposium to Highlight ‘Palestine Voices’

July 06, 2021 |WLT
A photograph of M. NourbeSe Philip juxtaposed with the cover to their book Zong! set inside the WLT 21 Books of the 21st Century logo dress
Interviews

Poetry as Untelling: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip

June 28, 2021 |Philip Metres
The covers to the six books discussed in the list below
Lit Lists

21 Books for the 21st Century: The Results of Our Readers’ Poll

June 28, 2021 |The Editors of WLT
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News and Events

Introducing WLT Book Buzz!

June 24, 2021 |The Editors of WLT
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Fiction

WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose by Albertine M. Itela

June 24, 2021 |Albertine M. Itela
The cover to I'll Be Strong for You by Nasim Marashi
Book Reviews

Will I Be Strong Enough for You? Nasim Marashi’s I’ll Be Strong for You

June 22, 2021 |Babak Mazloumi
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Fiction

For the Child’s Sake

June 22, 2021 |Tove Ditlevsen
Dipika Mukherjee with her father, Kalidas Mukherjee
Pandemic Dispatches

Tears and Song

June 18, 2021 |Dipika Mukherjee
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Book Reviews

The Weight of Remembering: On Yang Jisheng’s History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

June 17, 2021 |Ping Zhu
An illustration of a man and woman embracing. Both are wearing surgical masks
Pandemic Dispatches

Pandemic Love (in 13 Romance Tropes) March 2020–2021

June 16, 2021 |Laura Bernstein-Machlay
Photographs of the ten Neustadt finalists. The finalists are listed in the caption of the image.
News and Events

World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

June 15, 2021 |WLT