WLT  Weekly

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912), oil on canvas, 147 × 89.2 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Poetry

Two Bilingual Poems from Chile

May 22, 2017 |
Open book in the grass
Lit Lists

Ancient cookbooks as poetry, Margarita Engle wins Young People’s Poet Laureate, and more

May 19, 2017 |
Mad Country
Book Reviews

Political Seepage in Samrat Upadhyay’s Mad Country

May 17, 2017 |
Joanna Pollakówna
On Translation

A Terrible Ecstasy: The Poetry of Joanna Pollakówna

May 16, 2017 |
Giovanni Bellini, Pietà (1505), oil on wood, 65 x 90 cm, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
Poetry

Three Poems from Poland

May 15, 2017 |
BTBA 2017 winners
Lit Lists

The 2017 BTBA winners, the importance of Vietnamese American literature, and more

May 05, 2017 |
Chronicle of the Murdered House
Book Reviews

Time-warp Review: 2017 BTBA Winner Lúcio Cardoso’s Chronicle of the Murdered House

May 05, 2017 |
Who You Think I Am
Book Reviews

A Losing Battle with Social Identity in Camille Laurens’s Who You Think I Am

May 03, 2017 |
Jorge López Páez. Photo: CNL-INBA Archive
Literary Tributes

The Day Was Gay: A Tribute to Jorge López Páez (1922–2017)

May 01, 2017 |
Books arranged in rows at a bookstore
Lit Lists

Independent Bookstore Day, the six main arcs in storytelling, and more

April 28, 2017 |
Poem in Your Pocket Day graphic
Lit Lists

Five Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day

April 26, 2017 |
An open book in partial sunlight being held by a person with a blanket.
Lit Lists

A new interview with Adam Zagajewski, the pleasure of re-reading, and more

April 21, 2017 |
Iza’s Ballad
Book Reviews

Renegotiating Life, Approaching Death in Magda Szabó’s Ballad

April 19, 2017 |
BTBA 2017 logo
News and Events

The 2017 Best Translated Book Award Shortlist

April 18, 2017 |
Brian Turner, book cover: My Life as a Foreign Country
Interviews

A Conversation with Brian Turner

April 18, 2017 |Sonnet Mondal
Above view of books on a shelf
Lit Lists

Poetry in the courtroom, the ten most challenged books of 2016, and more

April 14, 2017 |