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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
Noam Chomsky with the cover to his book A Livable Future Is Possible
Book Reviews

Livable Futures: Noam Chomsky’s Voltairean Dedication to Truth

November 12, 2025 | Andrew Benzinger
Carlie Hoffmann and the cover to her book One More World Like This World
Book Reviews

Emotive Pictures: Carlie Hoffman’s One More World Like This World

November 04, 2025 | Jessica Van Orden
Xiaolu Guo with the cover to her book Call Me Ishmaelle
Book Reviews

The Afterlives of Moby-Dick: Xiaolu Guo’s Call Me Ishmaelle

October 30, 2025 | Jane Qian Liu
Ibrahim Nasrallah
News and Events

Ibrahim Nasrallah Wins the 2026 Neustadt Prize

October 21, 2025 | The Editors of WLT
Judith Hemschemeyer with the cover to her translation of Anna Akhmatova's Selected Poems
Literary Tributes

Pilgrimage and Passion Project: Remembering Judith Hemschemeyer

October 20, 2025 | Renee H. Shea
An aged picture of a family gathered around a table
Essay

The Colors of Poetry: Anna Frajlich’s Lifework

October 17, 2025 | Alice-Catherine Carls
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Book Reviews

Reassessing Exile and Diaspora: A Review of Exile and the Jews and Letters from Home

October 16, 2025 | Alan Levenson
Megha Sood with the cover to her book Language of the Wound Is Love
Interviews

Taming the Disorder: A Conversation with Megha Sood

October 15, 2025 | Mbizo Chirasha
A collage of the three covers to the books discussed below
Essay

Ways We Survive (or How Fiction Helps Us to Understand Violence)

October 14, 2025 | Catalina Infante Beovic
Arturo Fontaine with the cover to his book Y entonces Teresa
Book Reviews

The Incoherence of Love: Arturo Fontaine’s Y entonces Teresa

October 09, 2025 | Will H. Corral
Fereshteh Molavi with the cover to her book Thirty Shadow Birds
Essay

Simorgh in Exile: Reimagining Iranian Diaspora in Fereshteh Molavi’s Thirty Shadow Birds

October 07, 2025 | Mahdiyeh Ezzati