WLT  Weekly

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Interviews

Reclaiming Our Stories: How Two Oklahoma Women Are Healing Communities Through Education and Justice (Part 1—Kristi Williams)

January 13, 2026 | Karlos K. Hill, Kristi Williams
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Essay

Choreographic Process: The Marrow Thieves from Page to Stage

January 08, 2026 | Alma Borges
The cover to the Shepherd's House by Olinda Beja
Book Reviews

All the Sublime and Not So Sublime Tales That Make Us: Olinda Beja’s The Shepherd’s House

January 06, 2026 | Irene Marques
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Essay

The Borders We Cross

December 19, 2025 | Anna Badkhen
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News and Events

Announcing World Literature Today’s “Best of” Nominees for 2025

December 17, 2025 | The Editors of WLT
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Fiction

Light and Melody (an excerpt)

December 16, 2025 | Cho Haejin
A collage of covers featuring A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature, an anthology edited by WLT editor in chief Daniel Simon
News and Events

Give $100, Get a Book, Join the March

December 15, 2025 | The Editors of WLT
Adam Morgan with the cover to his book A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls
Book Reviews

Margaret C. Anderson, Modernist Heroine: 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.
Lit Lists

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2025

December 09, 2025 | Michelle Johnson
Theodore Ziolkowski in 2002 in front of a bookshelf
Literary Tributes

The Intellectual Venture of Theodore Ziolkowski

December 05, 2025 | Eric Ziolkowski
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Fiction

Isadora Cónsac

December 04, 2025 | Edgardo Rivera Martínez
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Culture

Conspiracy and Annihilation as Reparative Practices: On Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia

December 03, 2025 | Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Julien Jeusette
Jonas Elbousty with the cover to two of Mohamed Choukri's books
Interviews

Searching for Mohamed Choukri, the White Sparrow of Tangier: A Conversation with Jonas Elbousty

December 02, 2025 | Suzan Almahmoud
Hélène Dorion and the cover to her book Not Even the Sound of a River
Book Reviews

Long-Buried Depths: Hélène Dorion’s Not Even the Sound of a River

November 25, 2025 | Julie-Françoise Tolliver
Jeffrey Round with the cover to his book The English Tutor
Interviews

Pursuing Autofiction: A Conversation with Jeffrey Round

November 20, 2025 | Keith Garebian
Akiyuki Nosaka with the cover to his book Grave of the Fireflies,
Book Reviews

Repentance and Moral Reckoning: Akiyuki Nosaka’s Grave of the Fireflies

November 18, 2025 | Hiranmoy Lahiri