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Pandemic Dispatches

A History of Me

September 27, 2021 |Marlene Olin

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Letters from Exile

September 23, 2021 |Romeo Oriogun

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Punctuation as Compasses, Cannonballs, Induced Comas, Nods, Nudges, and Winks

September 22, 2021 |The Editors of WLT

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Only Connect (A Film Review)

September 21, 2021 |Yahia Lababidi

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News and Events

WLT Book Buzz Episode #3 - The Middle East & Northern Africa: Persian New Year, a Diverse Take on Alice in Wonderland, & More

September 20, 2021 |WLT

The Mothers

September 16, 2021 |Arao Ameny

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On Poetry, Buddhism, and Gardening toward Enlightenment: A Conversation with Chase Twichell

September 15, 2021 |Chard deNiord

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When the Levees Break

September 13, 2021 |Edwin Okolo

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Persephone

September 08, 2021 |Hasan Alizadeh

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Balancing on the Edge of Fashion and Art: A Conversation with Amber Ambrose Aurèle

September 07, 2021 |Margaret Larmuth

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What Is Difficult

September 01, 2021 |Tove Ditlevsen

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A Plane the Size of Afghanistan

August 31, 2021 |Ibtisam Barakat

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Sea Grammar 1: Fowle Water

August 25, 2021 |Briony Hughes

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Two Poems

August 25, 2021 |Ariana Benson

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Black Voices 2021: A Series Introduction

August 25, 2021 |Mahtem Shiferraw

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Two Bilingual Poems from Spain

August 24, 2021 |Juan Carlos Mestre

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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…

September 03, 2025 |César Andrés Caicedo

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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

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