WLT  Weekly

A collage of multiple copies of the cover to Melissa Weininger’s Beyond the Land
Book Reviews

Diaspora Israeli Culture Unbound: Melissa Weininger’s Beyond the Land

July 23, 2025 |Shachar Pinsker
A woman sits in a chair looking at the floor with melancholy
Culture

Piercing the Veil: Laura Makabresku’s Mystical Testimony

July 22, 2025 |Yahia Lababidi
Julie Masis with the cover to her book How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe
Interviews

Preserving Memory: A Conversation with Julie Masis

July 17, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason
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
Claire Jia and the cover to her book Wanting
Interviews

5 Questions for Claire Jia

July 15, 2025 |Michelle Johnson
A man's hate sits partially illuminated by sunlight on a table.
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
Elena Poniatowska and the cover to her book The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance
Book Reviews

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
A nebula in deep space
Poetry

We Count Humans by the Dead

June 24, 2025 |Geet Chaturvedi
Karen Fang with the cover to her book Background Artist
Interviews

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

June 20, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason
A graphic showing the "Delhi in the Anthropocene" cover illustration depicting interspecies cohabitation in the Delhi cityscape
News and Events

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

June 19, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
A collage of the cover to Asaad Zohrabi’s The Age of Lonelinesses
Book Reviews

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

June 18, 2025 |Zakarya Bezdoode
Chibueze Darlington Anuonye with the cover to his book Unbound
Essay

The Literary Interventions of Chibueze Darlington Anuonye

June 17, 2025 |Ugochukwu Anadị
Looking up into a green canopy, laced with serpentine and curved branches.
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.
News and Events

World Literature Today Announces Finalists for the 2026 Neustadt Prize

June 11, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
An unamde bed, bathed in light from a nearby window
Fiction

WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose

June 09, 2025 |Lo Yu