WLT  Weekly

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Essay

Disarming Masculinity: Rebecca Solnit’s “Books Are Instructions” and Reading Faulkner among Women

January 03, 2022 |Franklin Strong
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Book Reviews

Deep Adaptation, Climate Chaos, and Radical Hope

December 21, 2021 |Joel Mowdy
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Lit Lists

23 Last-Minute Holiday Book Recommendations: Something for Every Reader

December 21, 2021 |Rachel Hubbard
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News and Events

WLT Book Buzz Episode #4 - Kids’ Lit in Translation: Dragons, Zombies, Friendship, and Adventure

December 20, 2021 |WLT
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Book Reviews

Death Gives Life a Makeover in Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon

December 15, 2021 |Mark Axelrod-Sokolov
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Poetry

Civil Disobedience

December 15, 2021 |Luis Correa-Díaz
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Book Reviews

Leszek Kołakowski, the Reluctant Revolutionary

December 13, 2021 |George Gömöri
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Lit Lists

5 Books from a Cat’s Perspective on Human Nature

December 09, 2021 |Rachel Hubbard
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Essay

Writing Place

December 08, 2021 |Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Culture

What Working Behind the Scenes on Broadway Taught Me about Storytelling

December 07, 2021 |Amy Neswald
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News and Events

Announcing WLT’s 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominees

December 02, 2021 |The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

Reading Reality through the Imagination: In Conversation with Enrique Vila-Matas

December 01, 2021 |Anna María Iglesia
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Lit Lists

World Literature Today’s 75—Make That 100—Notable Translations of 2021

November 30, 2021 |Michelle Johnson
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Literary Tributes

In Memoriam Robert Bly (1926–2021)

November 23, 2021 |The Editors of WLT
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Poetry

Driftwood

November 18, 2021 |Sudeep Sen
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Fiction

Hell Offers Visas to Hazaras

November 17, 2021 |Musa Zafar