WLT  Weekly

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Book Reviews

Yannis Ritsos’s Exercises of the Imagination

May 07, 2025 |Frank G. Karioris
Kwame Dawes
Essay

Kwame Dawes: Profile of an Editor

May 06, 2025 |Chibueze Darlington Anuonye
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Interviews

Motherhood, Writing, and Making a Living: A Conversation with Rosalie Moffett

April 25, 2025 |Kathryn Savage
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Essay

Why Plays Should Be Seen—and Read

April 23, 2025 |Isaiah Stavchansky
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Book Reviews

Uncanny Japanese Noir: Uketsu’s Strange Pictures

April 22, 2025 |Kyle Counts
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Book Reviews

Nobody’s Innocent, or Everybody Is: Constance E. Squires’s Low April Sun

April 18, 2025 |Paul Juhasz
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Culture

Affective Hierarchies: Viewer Bias and Female Suffering in Severance

April 15, 2025 |Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
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On Translation

A Reply to Wendy Call and Whitney DeVos

April 08, 2025 |Veronica Esposito
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On Translation

“Language as Refuge”: A Letter to the Editor

April 08, 2025 |Wendy Call, Whitney DeVos
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Poetry

Four Chilean American Poems

April 07, 2025 |Marcelo Rioseco
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Essay

Who We Forget When We Talk about Irish Literature: Identity and Northern Irish Authors

April 04, 2025 |Terryn Ward
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News and Events

Help World Literature Today, Your Passport to Great Reading, Raise $5,000 in 24 hours!

April 01, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Essay

Is There Hope in Actual Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia?

March 27, 2025 |Michael M. Naydan
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Book Reviews

The Search for Meaning in Ostap Slyvynsky’s Ukrainian Dictionary of War

March 26, 2025 |Nicole Yurcaba
Lea Goldberg, Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā, and Almog Behar
News and Events

Editor in Chief Daniel Simon to Give Talk on the Multilingual Literatures of Israel

March 25, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

Responding to Nezahualcóyotl: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans

March 20, 2025 |Susan Smith Nash