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Book Reviews

The Marx Brothers Go to a Masked Ball: CΓ©sar Aira’s Lugones

July 15, 2021 | Will H. Corral
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Emmanuel CarrΓ¨re’s Dark Places

July 14, 2021 | Felipe Restrepo Pombo
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Essay

Meeting Friederike MayrΓΆcker (1924–2021): A Remembrance

July 13, 2021 | Sylvia Petter
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Make the NBA Great Again

July 07, 2021 | Michael Don
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In Ruins: Reflections beyond Kuwait

July 07, 2021 | Mai Al-Nakib
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July 15 Symposium to Highlight β€˜Palestine Voices’

July 06, 2021 | WLT
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Interviews

Poetry as Untelling: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip

June 28, 2021 | Philip Metres
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Lit Lists

21 Books for the 21st Century: The Results of Our Readers’ Poll

June 28, 2021 | The Editors of WLT
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Introducing WLT Book Buzz!

June 24, 2021 | The Editors of WLT
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Fiction

WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose by Albertine M. Itela

June 24, 2021 | Albertine M. Itela
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Will I Be Strong Enough for You? Nasim Marashi’s I’ll Be Strong for You

June 22, 2021 | Babak Mazloumi
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Fiction

For the Child’s Sake

June 22, 2021 | Tove Ditlevsen
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Pandemic Dispatches

Tears and Song

June 18, 2021 | Dipika Mukherjee
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Book Reviews

The Weight of Remembering: On Yang Jisheng’s History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

June 17, 2021 | Ping Zhu
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Pandemic Dispatches

Pandemic Love (in 13 Romance Tropes) March 2020–2021

June 16, 2021 | Laura Bernstein-Machlay
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World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

June 15, 2021 | WLT

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