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WLT Book Buzz Episode #2 - Reading History: Partition, the Tulsa Race Massacre, Bold Women & More

August 04, 2021 |WLT
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Graphology Restoration 40: Semitic Languages

August 03, 2021 |John Kinsella
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The 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature Jury: A Reading List

August 02, 2021 |The Editors of WLT
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To My Leaver-Mother

July 29, 2021 |Romalyn Ante
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World Literature Today Announces 2021 Neustadt Festival Poster Design Contest Winners

July 27, 2021 |WLT
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Travels in Literature

As Popular as a Soccer Star

July 22, 2021 |Peter LaSalle
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Culture

Jim Harrison’s Meatballs

July 20, 2021 |J. R. Patterson
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Culture

Art as a “Catalyst for Conversations”: A Conversation with Philbrook Curator Susan Green

July 16, 2021 |Michelle Johnson
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Book Reviews

The Marx Brothers Go to a Masked Ball: César Aira’s Lugones

July 15, 2021 |Will H. Corral
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Essay

Emmanuel Carrère’s Dark Places

July 14, 2021 |Felipe Restrepo Pombo
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Essay

Meeting Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021): A Remembrance

July 13, 2021 |Sylvia Petter
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Pandemic Dispatches

Make the NBA Great Again

July 07, 2021 |Michael Don
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Essay

In Ruins: Reflections beyond Kuwait

July 07, 2021 |Mai Al-Nakib
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News and Events

July 15 Symposium to Highlight ‘Palestine Voices’

July 06, 2021 |WLT
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Poetry as Untelling: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip

June 28, 2021 |Philip Metres
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21 Books for the 21st Century: The Results of Our Readers’ Poll

June 28, 2021 |The Editors of WLT

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