WLT  Weekly

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Creative Nonfiction

When the Door Was Open

March 06, 2025 |Angela Townsend
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Essay

Who Decides Good Grammar?

March 05, 2025 |Mary Ann Livingood
The Student Translation Prize winners, Lucy Coleman and Lala Mammadova
News and Events

Student Translation Prize Winners Announced at the University of Oklahoma

March 04, 2024 |The Editors of WLT
Kwame Dawes with the cover to his book Sturge Town
Essay

Elegiac Negotiations: Neville Dawes through Kwame Dawes’s Eyes

February 27, 2025 |Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
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Essay

The Queer Beauty of Unfaithful Translations

February 26, 2025 |paparouna
A photographic detail from a sculpture of a beaded male figure
Fiction

Out of the Shadows

February 25, 2025 |Lilach Galil
A photograph of David Boren jutxaposed with a slab of text that isn't germane to this tribute
In Memoriam

David L. Boren: My Dear Friend

February 21, 2025 |Nick Hathaway
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Poetry

In Days of Winter

February 19, 2025 |Ken Hada
A photograph of Mariana Sabino with the cover to her book The Verdigris Stories
Interviews

A “Rootless Rhizome”: A Conversation with Mariana Sabino

February 19, 2025 |Geoff Graser
A photograph of a porthole window on a ship, looking out at the ocean
Poetry

Three Poems from Hong Kong

February 18, 2025 |Yau Ching
A photograph of Jorge Volpi with the cover to his book La invencion de todas las cosas
Interviews

“Fictions are concentrated in the library nurtured by AI”: A Conversation with Jorge Volpi

February 17, 2025 |Claudia Cavallin
A photograph of a wooden bench with a heart drawn on it in chalk
Fiction

Critical Lovemaking

February 14, 2025 |Mika Seifert
A photograph of Radwa Ashour with the cover to her book Granada
Book Reviews

Like Gold in the River: A Review of Radwa Ashour’s Granada Trilogy

February 05, 2025 |Gretchen McCullough
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Creative Nonfiction

The Squirrel at the Monastery

February 04, 2025 |Lana Spendl
A photograph of Ọlábísí Àjàlá with the cover to his book An African Abroad
Book Reviews

The Childlike Daring of Ọlábísí Àjàlá, Global Citizen

January 28, 2025 |Chibueze Darlington Anuonye
A photograph of a lit candle emerging from the darkness. Text reads: International Holocaust Remebrance Day: Jan. 27, 2025
Essay

My Alma Mater Is Auschwitz

January 27, 2025 |Edith Bruck