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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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WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose

July 08, 2020 |

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Seeing

July 08, 2020 |

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WLT Student Translation Prize – Poetry

July 07, 2020 |

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OU’s Romanoff Center and WLT to Host Event on LGBTQ+ Representation in Russia

The University of Oklahoma’s Romanoff Center for Russian Studies and World Literature Today invite you to a free zoom conversation scheduled…

September 04, 2025 |The Editors of WLT

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No Safe Place to Say Thank You: Ambivalence and Belonging in Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee

When migrants must perform gratitude to be believed, what happens to their truth? Dina Nayeri’s memoir disrupts the tidy refugee story, turning…

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“Never hang your head, girl child, raise it up high like a so”: A Conversation with Mel Pennant

Mel Pennant / Photo by Gemma Day Mel Pennant, known primarily as a playwright and screenwriter, published her debut novel, A Murder for…

September 02, 2025 |Renee H. Shea

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Taking Stock: On Ferdinando Camon

Photo by DW labs / Adobe Stock In “crying out in his vindictive disarray, proclaiming that he has been, if not wayward, at least unassimilable…

August 29, 2025 |Patrick Autréaux

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Translating Ecology and Identity: How Wolf Totem Became a Global Environmental Parable

Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem (2004) transcended cultural boundaries to become a global environmental parable. This essay explores the…

August 28, 2025 |Qiang Pi