WLT  Weekly

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Black Voices

Two Poems

August 25, 2021 |Ariana Benson
Spray painted words adorn the side of a boarded up building. Text reads: Stop killing black people. Black Lives Matter. No justice. No peace.
Black Voices

Black Voices 2021: A Series Introduction

August 25, 2021 |Mahtem Shiferraw
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Poetry

Two Bilingual Poems from Spain

August 24, 2021 |Juan Carlos Mestre
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Book Reviews

Of Roots and Reckonings: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois

August 19, 2021 |Adele Newson-Horst
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Book Reviews

Crime and Punishment on the Rosebud: David Weiden’s Winter Counts

August 18, 2021 |Brenna O’Hara
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Essay

Hands: On Two Hong Kong Prose Essays by Xi Xi

August 17, 2021 |Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
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Culture

Gouranga

August 12, 2021 |Jitendra Nath Misra
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Poetry

Cleaners

August 10, 2021 |Vladimir Pryakhin
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Interviews

Keeping a Critical Eye on Brazil: A Conversation with Emilio Fraia

August 09, 2021 |Anderson Tepper
Water-logged trash, including a child's mylar balloon, a notebook and a sandal, lay on a tree branch with a lake stretching out in the background behind it
Book Reviews

A Poetry of Estrangement: Moheb Soliman’s Great Lakes Palimpsest

August 05, 2021 |Shir Alon
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News and Events

WLT Book Buzz Episode #2 - Reading History: Partition, the Tulsa Race Massacre, Bold Women & More

August 04, 2021 |WLT
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Poetry

Graphology Restoration 40: Semitic Languages

August 03, 2021 |John Kinsella
The covers to Above the Milky Way and the Registers of Illuminated Villages
Lit Lists

The 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature Jury: A Reading List

August 02, 2021 |The Editors of WLT
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Essay

To My Leaver-Mother

July 29, 2021 |Romalyn Ante
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News and Events

World Literature Today Announces 2021 Neustadt Festival Poster Design Contest Winners

July 27, 2021 |WLT
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Travels in Literature

As Popular as a Soccer Star

July 22, 2021 |Peter LaSalle