WLT  Weekly

Booklists

NEA Literary Translation Fellowship recipients, Cuba’s thriving sci-fi, and more

August 26, 2016 |
Amit Majmudar
Interviews

Poet, Radiologist, and 007 Wannabe: A Conversation with Amit Majmudar, Ohio’s First Poet Laureate

August 22, 2016 |
Stacks of books in a room with a window
Booklists

A book revolution in Somalia, reading Brazil, and more

August 18, 2016 |
Car lights at night.
Fiction

An Archangel Named Gabriel

August 17, 2016 |
I'll Sell You a Dog
On Translation

New Translations in August

August 16, 2016 |
From the Carl Albert Center Congressional Resources Center. Wilburn Cartwright Collection, Photographs Series, Box 2, Item 191
Booklists

The end of a Franz Kafka legal battle, how to receive criticism, and more

August 12, 2016 |
The Incarnations by Susan Barker, and The Red Violin
Cultural Cross Sections

The Cultural Revolution as Subnarrative

August 10, 2016 |
Portuguese Library in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Lauro Maia/Flickr
Booklists

Rio’s Olympic book donations, the Man Booker’s effect on small presses, and more

August 05, 2016 |
Tujia shamans / Courtesy of Fang Qi
Fiction

Elegy of a River Shaman (an excerpt)

August 03, 2016 |
Life in Peacetime
Book Reviews

Bridging the Black Water: A Review of Life in Peacetime, by Bhisham Bherwani

August 01, 2016 |
Stack of books
Booklists

2016 Man Booker Prize longlist, Hemingway look-alikes, and more

July 29, 2016 |
Mohammadali F., “Daffodils,” Tehran, 2009
Poetry

Four Love Poems from Iran

July 27, 2016 |
Radio Atlas screencapture
Booklists

If writers billed by the hour, a new interview with Etgar Keret, and more

July 22, 2016 |
Esther Schwarz, “Lush (66/365),” 2009. For more of Schwarz’s photos, visit Inside My Shell.
Poetry

Two Poems from Portugal

July 20, 2016 |
In the Cafe of Lost Youth
Book Reviews

Memories Unmoored: A Review of In the Café of Lost Youth, by Patrick Modiano

July 18, 2016 |
Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr
Booklists

The U.S. Poet Laureate’s “sudden poem,” libraries and Pokémon Go, and more

July 15, 2016 |