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Albert Cossary with the covers to his books Proud Beggars and The Jokers
Essay

“The Egyptian Joker”: Remembering Greek-Levantine Egyptian Writer Albert Cossery

July 16, 2025 |Gretchen McCullough
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5 Questions for Claire Jia

July 15, 2025 |Michelle Johnson
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Fiction

Infinite Absence (an excerpt)

July 10, 2025 |Ronald Ribman
A collage of covers from the albums discussed below
Culture

The Japanese Shoegaze Revival

July 09, 2025 |Toby Isaac
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Elena Poniatowska’s Portraits of Post-Revolutionary Mexican Writers and Artists Prove That She, Too, Is a Truly Exceptional Figure

July 08, 2025 |Ryan Long
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Poetry

We Count Humans by the Dead

June 24, 2025 |Geet Chaturvedi
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Interviews

Tyrus Wong’s Visionary Bicultural Aesthetic: A Conversation with Karen Fang

June 20, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason
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News and Events

Ananke and WLT Host “Delhi in the Anthropocene” Conversation on June 30

June 19, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Book Reviews

A Novelist from the Kurdish City of Earring: Asaad Zohrabi’s The Age of Lonelinesses

June 18, 2025 |Zakarya Bezdoode
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Essay

The Literary Interventions of Chibueze Darlington Anuonye

June 17, 2025 |Ugochukwu Anadị
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Poetry

WLT Student Translation Prize – Poetry

June 13, 2025 |Simone Lappert
The finalists for the 2026 Neustadt Prize. Text reads: 2026 Neustadt Prize for International Literature Finalists.
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World Literature Today Announces Finalists for the 2026 Neustadt Prize

June 11, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Fiction

WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose

June 09, 2025 |Lo Yu
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Book Reviews

Remembering Nissim Ezekiel, Indian-Jewish Writer

June 04, 2025 |Candice Louisa Daquin
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Interviews

Finding What’s Hiding Underneath: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett

June 03, 2025 |Debbie Ou
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2025 Neustadt Poster Contest Winners Announced

May 30, 2025 |The Editors of WLT

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