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Roohi Choudhry with the cover to her boook Outside Women
Interviews

“When You Are Outside, You Can Be That Wild Thing”: A Conversation with Roohi Choudhry

May 19, 2025 |Serkan Gӧrkemli
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On Translation

Answering New Questions: Translating Yu Hua’s City of Fiction

May 15, 2025 |Todd Foley
Fabienne Rink and Fion Tse
News and Events

World Literature Today Announces 2025 Student Translation Prize Winners

May 13, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
Amanda Hess with the cover to her book Second Life
Book Reviews

One Story Speaking to Many: Amanda Hess’s Second Life

May 12, 2025 |Marek Makowski
Looking up a palm tree's heart
Essay

How to Care for Our Longest-Living Forced Migrants

May 08, 2025 |Olga Zilberbourg
A photo collage of the jurors listed below. Text reads: Announcing the 2026 Neustadt International Prize for Literature: Jurors.
News and Events

Jury Announced for the 2026 Neustadt Prize

May 07, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
An island, shrouded in darkness, a light can be seen on the sea surrounding peeking in from the edges
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
Abstract symbols hover in a black field
Interviews

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

April 25, 2025 |Kathryn Savage
A row of theater seats, all but swallowed up by the darkness save for a spotlight on the inner circle
Essay

Why Plays Should Be Seen—and Read

April 23, 2025 |Isaiah Stavchansky
A camera, submerged below clear water
Book Reviews

Uncanny Japanese Noir: Uketsu’s Strange Pictures

April 22, 2025 |Kyle Counts
Trees on pedestals lined a grassy walkway
Book Reviews

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

April 18, 2025 |Paul Juhasz
A woman sits at a desk in an office looking emotionlessly at the viewer
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
A placid lake at sunset with grassy land jutting out into it.
Poetry

Four Chilean American Poems

April 07, 2025 |Marcelo Rioseco