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Think of Me, Laughing

August 19, 2020 |Major Jackson

A bread vendor sits next to her piles of bread heaped on a bicycle on a stone plaza in winter

Pandemic Dispatches

The Parable of the Bread

August 18, 2020 |Juan Villoro

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Blake Butler’s Nasty Alice Knott

August 17, 2020 |J. David Osborne

A coil of motion picture film is coming uncoiled

The Story of a Dreamy Sky

August 13, 2020 |Liyanage Amarakeerthi

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Running

August 13, 2020 |Ashia Ajani

News and Events

University of Oklahoma’s Neustadt Prize Announces Its 50-Year Anniversary

August 12, 2020 |

A photo of Richard van Leeuwen juxtaposed with the cover to his book HdO

Arabic Literature and Antiquarian Bookshops: A Conversation with Richard van Leeuwen

August 10, 2020 |Alex Crayon

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There Is No Scar, Only Absence

August 05, 2020 |Saddiq Dzukogi

A figure clad in swimming shorts with an American flag on them faces away from the camera and is poised to jump into a natural swimming hole

A Fistful of Dollars

July 29, 2020 |Carlos Lechuga

A photographer of photographer John Willis juxtaposed with the cover to his book Mni Wiconi

Mni Wiconi / Water Is Life: Photographer John Willis Honors the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Their Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty

July 29, 2020 |Skuya Zephier

A closeup photograph of a head of kale

Ode to Kale

July 22, 2020 |Hope Wabuke

A Kashmiri village, swaddled in snow and ice

My Father’s Sawmill

July 20, 2020 |Feroz Rather

A photograph of a multi-colored merry go round on the snowy ground outside of a school

The Winners

July 17, 2020 |Erica X Eisen

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A Memory of Us

July 15, 2020 |Safia Elhillo

A brown wall with faded spots where pieces of paper where once affixed but have now been removed. A small pile of books and notebooks sits on a table just to the left of the frame

WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose

July 08, 2020 |

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Seeing

July 08, 2020 |

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