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Book Reviews

The Tyranny of Togetherness: Dystopia, Identity, and the Body in Hon Lai Chu’s Mending Bodies

May 22, 2025 |Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
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Book Reviews

Understanding Eastern Storytelling in Henry Lien’s Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird

May 21, 2025 |Lala Mammadova
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Interviews

“When You Are Outside, You Can Be That Wild Thing”: A Conversation with Roohi Choudhry

May 19, 2025 |Serkan Gӧrkemli
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On Translation

Answering New Questions: Translating Yu Hua’s City of Fiction

May 15, 2025 |Todd Foley
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World Literature Today Announces 2025 Student Translation Prize Winners

May 13, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Book Reviews

One Story Speaking to Many: Amanda Hess’s Second Life

May 12, 2025 |Marek Makowski
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Essay

How to Care for Our Longest-Living Forced Migrants

May 08, 2025 |Olga Zilberbourg
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Jury Announced for the 2026 Neustadt Prize

May 07, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Book Reviews

Yannis Ritsos’s Exercises of the Imagination

May 07, 2025 |Frank G. Karioris
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Essay

Kwame Dawes: Profile of an Editor

May 06, 2025 |Chibueze Darlington Anuonye
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Motherhood, Writing, and Making a Living: A Conversation with Rosalie Moffett

April 25, 2025 |Kathryn Savage
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Essay

Why Plays Should Be Seen—and Read

April 23, 2025 |Isaiah Stavchansky
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Uncanny Japanese Noir: Uketsu’s Strange Pictures

April 22, 2025 |Kyle Counts
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Nobody’s Innocent, or Everybody Is: Constance E. Squires’s Low April Sun

April 18, 2025 |Paul Juhasz
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Culture

Affective Hierarchies: Viewer Bias and Female Suffering in Severance

April 15, 2025 |Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
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April 08, 2025 |Veronica Esposito

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