WLT  Weekly

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Essay

Who We Forget When We Talk about Irish Literature: Identity and Northern Irish Authors

April 04, 2025 |Terryn Ward
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News and Events

Help World Literature Today, Your Passport to Great Reading, Raise $5,000 in 24 hours!

April 01, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Essay

Is There Hope in Actual Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia?

March 27, 2025 |Michael M. Naydan
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Book Reviews

The Search for Meaning in Ostap Slyvynsky’s Ukrainian Dictionary of War

March 26, 2025 |Nicole Yurcaba
Lea Goldberg, Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā, and Almog Behar
News and Events

Editor in Chief Daniel Simon to Give Talk on the Multilingual Literatures of Israel

March 25, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

Responding to Nezahualcóyotl: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans

March 20, 2025 |Susan Smith Nash
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Lit Lists

10 International Dystopian Novels about Authoritarian Regimes

March 19, 2025 |Lala Mammadova
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman and D. P. Snyder
News and Events

WLT to Co-Sponsor Talk by Distinguished Mexican Jewish Writer Angelina Muñiz-Huberman and D. P. Snyder

March 18, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Poetry

War Haiku

March 13, 2025 |Bacol Serlui
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Book Reviews

Precious Madness: Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest Is Silence

March 12, 2025 |Alejandro Lámbarry
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Lit Lists

20 Environmental Literature Recommendations: Books That Celebrate Human Life, Plants, and Nature

March 11, 2025 |Emiley White
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Creative Nonfiction

When the Door Was Open

March 06, 2025 |Angela Townsend
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Essay

Who Decides Good Grammar?

March 05, 2025 |Mary Ann Livingood
The Student Translation Prize winners, Lucy Coleman and Lala Mammadova
News and Events

Student Translation Prize Winners Announced at the University of Oklahoma

March 04, 2024 |The Editors of WLT
Kwame Dawes with the cover to his book Sturge Town
Essay

Elegiac Negotiations: Neville Dawes through Kwame Dawes’s Eyes

February 27, 2025 |Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
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Essay

The Queer Beauty of Unfaithful Translations

February 26, 2025 |paparouna