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Book Reviews

Emancipatory Queerness in the Work of Roberto BolaΓ±o

February 01, 2022 | Erika Almenara
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Poetry

The End of the World

January 31, 2022 | Natan Zach
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Book Reviews

Jorge Edwards’s Elegant Homage to Pablo Neruda

January 27, 2022 | CΓ©sar Ferreira
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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lost Daughter: A Marvelous Betrayal

January 24, 2022 | Enrica Maria Ferrara
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Interviews

A Novel of Old Shanghai: In Conversation with Weina Dai Randel

January 20, 2022 | Susan Blumberg-Kason
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Poetry

The Tree

January 18, 2022 | Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
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Book Reviews

A New Paradigm: Youth Climate Activists on the Front Lines of Change

January 12, 2022 | Sofia Simon
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Book Reviews

Beyond Ekphrasis: Rereading Jean Giono’s Ennemonde

January 11, 2022 | Alice-Catherine Carls
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Words for Thought

Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural (an excerpt)

January 11, 2022 |
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Interviews

What Is Autobiography? A Conversation with Debut Memoirist Victoria Chang

January 05, 2022 | Amy Wright
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Two Poems from Portugal

January 04, 2022 | Ana Marques GastΓ£o
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Essay

Disarming Masculinity: Rebecca Solnit’s β€œBooks Are Instructions” and Reading Faulkner among Women

January 03, 2022 | Franklin Strong
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Book Reviews

Deep Adaptation, Climate Chaos, and Radical Hope

December 21, 2021 | Joel Mowdy
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Lit Lists

23 Last-Minute Holiday Book Recommendations: Something for Every Reader

December 21, 2021 | Rachel Hubbard
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WLT Book Buzz Episode #4 - Kids’ Lit in Translation: Dragons, Zombies, Friendship, and Adventure

December 20, 2021 | WLT
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Book Reviews

Death Gives Life a Makeover in Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon

December 15, 2021 | Mark Axelrod-Sokolov

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