WLT  Weekly

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News and Events

Announcing a New Publishing Project and a Call for Co-Editors: Best Translations: An Annual Anthology

December 09, 2020 | The Editors of WLT
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Book Reviews

Strange and Wondrous Journeys with Palestinian Writer Sonia Nimr

December 07, 2020 | Madison Doyle
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Interviews

Advice to the New Guard: A Conversation with Translator Jessica Cohen

December 06, 2020 | Veronica Esposito
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Interviews

Lilliam Rivera’s Orpheus and Eurydice Remix: Talking about Never Look(ing) Back

December 02, 2020 | Bayleigh Acosta
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News and Events

Announcing WLT’s 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominees

November 30, 2020 | The Editors of WLT
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The Once Over

Nuruddin Farah’s Crucible of the Imagination

November 20, 2020 | Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Poetry

Three Náhuatl Poems from Mexico

November 18, 2020 | Martín Tonalmeyotl
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Poetry

Gertrude: “But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading . . .”

November 17, 2020 | Aleksandr Kushner
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Poetry

Two Catalan Poems

November 11, 2020 | Narcís Comadira
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Poetry

The Trucks

November 10, 2020 | Hannah Lowe
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Intern’s Picks

Intern’s Pick

November 04, 2020 | Sydney Stutler
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Cultural Cross Sections

Destination: New Zealand

November 03, 2020 | Madeleine Dorst
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Intern’s Picks

The Ballad of Books

November 02, 2020 | Mackenzie Anderson
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Cultural Cross Sections

Three Pre-Columbian Mythical Creatures to Enliven Your Waking Dreams

October 28, 2020 | Ilan Stavans, Eko
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Interviews

“Imagining More Transgender Visibility in Translation”: A Conversation with Ari Larissa Heinrich

October 27, 2020 | Veronica Esposito
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Book Reviews

The Odyssey of the Tehran Children: Mikhal Dekel’s Story of Holocaust Survival

October 27, 2020 | Rhona Seidelman