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Notes from the Field

August 26, 2020 |Jehan L. Roberson

The Festival Five with Author and Translator David Bellos

August 25, 2020 |The Editors of WLT

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Think of Me, Laughing

August 19, 2020 |Major Jackson

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Pandemic Dispatches

The Parable of the Bread

August 18, 2020 |Juan Villoro

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Blake Butler’s Nasty Alice Knott

August 17, 2020 |J. David Osborne

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The Story of a Dreamy Sky

August 13, 2020 |Liyanage Amarakeerthi

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Running

August 13, 2020 |Ashia Ajani

News and Events

University of Oklahoma’s Neustadt Prize Announces Its 50-Year Anniversary

August 12, 2020 |

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Arabic Literature and Antiquarian Bookshops: A Conversation with Richard van Leeuwen

August 10, 2020 |Alex Crayon

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There Is No Scar, Only Absence

August 05, 2020 |Saddiq Dzukogi

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A Fistful of Dollars

July 29, 2020 |Carlos Lechuga

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Mni Wiconi / Water Is Life: Photographer John Willis Honors the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Their Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty

July 29, 2020 |Skuya Zephier

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Ode to Kale

July 22, 2020 |Hope Wabuke

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My Father’s Sawmill

July 20, 2020 |Feroz Rather

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The Winners

July 17, 2020 |Erica X Eisen

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A Memory of Us

July 15, 2020 |Safia Elhillo

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Cherie Dimaline to Headline 2025 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU

World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will confer the …

August 13, 2025 |The Editors of WLT

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Jubilee Musings on The Book of Fathers

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Hungarian author Miklós Vámos’s most successful work, Apák könyve (2000; The…

August 12, 2025 |Miklós Vámos

Poetry, Audio Poetry

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As If We Know

Memorial cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, designed by Kenzō Tange / Photo by Phillip H-B / stock.adobe.com worldlittoday ·…

August 06, 2025 |Rilla Askew

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

Alejandro Puyana didn’t anticipate his debut novel, Freedom Is a Feast (Little Brown, 2024), coinciding with daily headlines about…

August 05, 2025 |Geoff Graser

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

Shelly Sanders is a Canadian novelist who writes historical fiction set in Old Shanghai and the former Soviet Union. Her main characters are Jewish…

July 31, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason