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Dina Nayeri with the cover to her book The Ungrateful Refugee
Essay

No Safe Place to Say Thank You: Ambivalence and Belonging in Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee

September 03, 2025 | César Andrés Caicedo
The author Mel Pennant and a copy of her book jacket, A Murder for Miss Hortense
Interviews

“Never hang your head, girl child, raise it up high like a so”: A Conversation with Mel Pennant

September 02, 2025 | Renee H. Shea
A medical bag with a stethoscope and an otolaryngioscope visible
Essay

Taking Stock: On Ferdinando Camon

August 29, 2025 | Patrick Autréaux
A collage of Wolf Totem book covers in translation
On Translation

Translating Ecology and Identity: How Wolf Totem Became a Global Environmental Parable

August 28, 2025 | Qiang Pi
A cup of coffee with stylized cream
Essay

To Resist a Dictatorship of the Absurd, an American Turns to Václav Havel

August 27, 2025 | Erik Gleibermann
A collage of Marc Alyn's book covers
Essay

“Whipped by the Angel’s Wings”: French Writer Marc Alyn at the Pinnacle of His Career

August 25, 2025 | Alice-Catherine Carls
The covers to the books discussed below
Booklists

Not Gone, Just Busy Translating Women

August 21, 2025 | The Third Coast Translators Collective
Eleanor Wilner with the covers to her books The Girl with Bees in Her Hair and Before Our Eyes
Interviews

Six Decades of Visionary Imagination: A Conversation with Eleanor Wilner

August 20, 2025 | Chibueze Darlington Anuonye
A collage of the books discussed below
Essay

Palestinian Novelist Sahar Khalifeh: Exploring the Nakba and Gender Politics in Palestine

August 19, 2025 | Fakhri Saleh
Carroll Beauvais with the cover to her book Preverbal
Book Reviews

Translating Grief Outside Itself: Carroll Beauvais’s Preverbal

August 18, 2025 | Candice Louisa Daquin
A black and white photo of time-exposed lights in darkness
Poetry

And Hunger Was Given Dominion over Us

August 15, 2025 | Ezzideen Shehab
Antonia Lloyd-Jones with the cover to The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories
Interviews

Anthologizing Polish Short Stories: A Conversation with Antonia Lloyd-Jones

August 14, 2025 | Sara Bielecki
Text reads: 2025 Neustadt Lit Fest. Celebrating Excellence and Achievement in YA Lit. October 20-22.
News and Events

Cherie Dimaline Headlines 2025 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU

August 13, 2025 | The Editors of WLT
Miklós Vámos with the cover to his book Apák könyve
Essay

Jubilee Musings on The Book of Fathers

August 12, 2025 | Miklós Vámos
Memorial cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Poetry, Audio Poetry

As If We Know

August 06, 2025 | Rilla Askew
Alejandro Puyana with the cover to his book Freedom Is a Feast
Interviews

Telling a Complete and True Story of Venezuela: A Conversation with Alejandro Puyana

August 05, 2025 | Geoff Graser