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Ask the Evening Light Its Shape

January 17, 2019 |

Loretta Klobah juxtaposed with the cover to her book Ricantations

Chronicling Puerto Rico: Loretta Collins Klobah’s Ricantations

January 15, 2019 |

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The Bookshop Band Tours the US: A Conversation with the Bookshop Band

January 14, 2019 |

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Rimbaud’s Spiritual Battle

January 10, 2019 |

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Michael Bazzett’s New Popol Vuh: How Language Makes Us Human

January 07, 2019 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

Aulò, Aulò, Aulò!: On Ribka Sibhatu

January 03, 2019 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

Dust

December 20, 2018 |

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Under the Orange Trees of Gaza

December 18, 2018 |

News and Events

Announcing WLT’s 2018 Pushcart Prize Nominees

December 13, 2018 |

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News and Events

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2018

December 11, 2018 |

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The Land of Regal Elephants

December 07, 2018 |

The cover to The Freedom Factory juxtaposed with a photo of its author, Ksenia Buksha

What We Translate When We Translate Literature: On Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory

December 04, 2018 |

Poet Meena Alexander

Meena

November 26, 2018 |

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Destigmatizing Mental Illness, One Poem at a Time

November 20, 2018 |

Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

11 Books for Tolerance & Understanding

November 16, 2018 |Alan Levenson, Daniel Simon

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Spider Babies Blowing

November 13, 2018 |

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December 15, 2025 |The Editors of WLT

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Adam Morgan / Photo by Beowulf Sheehan / Courtesy of Simon & Schuster Adam Morgan’s A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls:…

December 11, 2025 |Kristen Skillen

Covers to several of the books discussed below. Text reads: WLT's 75 Notable Translations of 2025.

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2025

The field of translated literature was again robust in 2025. In addition to the many excellent English translations of work from around the world,…

December 09, 2025 |Michelle Johnson