WLT  Weekly

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News and Events

Call for an Africa / African Diaspora Co-Editor for the Best Translations Anthology

March 10, 2021 |The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

The Writer as Traveler and the Gift of Prismatic Vision: An Interview with Stephanie McKenzie

March 09, 2021 |Tom Halford
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Interviews

“Learning Again How to Live”: A Conversation with Ivorian Writer Véronique Tadjo

March 09, 2021 |Anderson Tepper
A photograph of Alice Catherine-Carls. Text reads: Translation as a Laboratory of Life. A Humanities Talk by Alice Catherine Carls. Thursday, March 23, 4 to 6 pm. Free and open to the public. Buskuhl Gallery, Gould Hall 130. 4 pm Rception. 4;30 pm Talk. 5:15 Audience Q&A.
News and Events

Alice-Catherine Carls to Deliver “Translation as a Laboratory for Life” Lecture

March 07, 2023 |The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

Translating Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Conversation with Michael Berry

March 02, 2021 |King Yu
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Pandemic Dispatches

Quarantine Notes: or, Moral Aphorisms

February 24, 2021 |Yahia Lababidi
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Current Events

Nappy Roots Books, a Bastion and a Haven: A Conversation with Camille Landry

February 22, 2021 |Alex Crayon
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Poetry

The Ones Who’d Carry It Out

February 18, 2021 |William Trowbridge
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Essay

What’s Left Unsaid: How Ismail Kadare Escaped Suppression but Embraced the Style It Taught Him

February 18, 2021 |Peter Constantine
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Culture

You Are What You Eat

February 10, 2021 |Yahia Lababidi
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Poetry

Two Poems, from Greece to Panama

February 09, 2021 |Maria Nazos
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Culture

The Tragedy of Timișoara

February 09, 2021 |Melinda Mátyus
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Poetry

Well-Being over the Phone

February 03, 2021 |Mangalesh Dabral
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Book Reviews

The Radical Gospel of H. L. Hix

February 03, 2021 |Rob Vollmar
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Culture

The Art of Telling the Truth: Chinese Female Stand-up Comedians

February 01, 2021 |Ping Zhu
A still from a movie. A dark-skinned man, dressed in a blue shirt, is flanked on either side by men dressed in military garb. The text (which is a subtitle) reads, "It is the century of the brown man and the yellow man."
Culture

The Roar of the Wronged: Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger

January 27, 2021 |Yahia Lababidi