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Creative Nonfiction

When the Door Was Open

March 06, 2025 |Angela Townsend
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Who Decides Good Grammar?

March 05, 2025 |Mary Ann Livingood
The Student Translation Prize winners, Lucy Coleman and Lala Mammadova
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Student Translation Prize Winners Announced at the University of Oklahoma

March 04, 2024 |The Editors of WLT
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Essay

Elegiac Negotiations: Neville Dawes through Kwame Dawes’s Eyes

February 27, 2025 |Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
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Essay

The Queer Beauty of Unfaithful Translations

February 26, 2025 |paparouna
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Fiction

Out of the Shadows

February 25, 2025 |Lilach Galil
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In Memoriam

David L. Boren: My Dear Friend

February 21, 2025 |Nick Hathaway
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Poetry

In Days of Winter

February 19, 2025 |Ken Hada
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A “Rootless Rhizome”: A Conversation with Mariana Sabino

February 19, 2025 |Geoff Graser
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Poetry

Three Poems from Hong Kong

February 18, 2025 |Yau Ching
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“Fictions are concentrated in the library nurtured by AI”: A Conversation with Jorge Volpi

February 17, 2025 |Claudia Cavallin
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Fiction

Critical Lovemaking

February 14, 2025 |Mika Seifert
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Like Gold in the River: A Review of Radwa Ashour’s Granada Trilogy

February 05, 2025 |Gretchen McCullough
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The Squirrel at the Monastery

February 04, 2025 |Lana Spendl
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The Childlike Daring of Ọlábísí Àjàlá, Global Citizen

January 28, 2025 |Chibueze Darlington Anuonye
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My Alma Mater Is Auschwitz

January 27, 2025 |Edith Bruck

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