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The Fiction of Natalia Ginzburg: “We’re All Unreliable and Broken”

August 21, 2019 |

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World Literature Today Wins APEX award

August 21, 2019 |

The cover to Andrew Hui's A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter superimposed over an ancient Chinese text

On the Brink of Silence

August 20, 2019 |

The covers to three books highlighted in the post (Jacob's Ladder, History: A Mess, and The Wind that Lays Waste)

Celebrating Women in Translation Month: New Translations by Women from around the Globe

August 15, 2019 |

A photo of Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith

Recalling and Reimagining Vietnam: A Conversation with Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith

August 12, 2019 |

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Joy Harjo’s Mo(u)rning in America

August 12, 2019 |

A photo of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Writing to Uganda: A Conversation with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

August 06, 2019 |

Literary Activism

50 Years of Literary Activism: The WLT Readers’ Poll

August 01, 2019 |

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Investigating Women Crime Writers: Four Audio-interviews

July 29, 2019 |

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Flamingo #13 of the Caspian Sea

July 25, 2019 |

A photo of Amit Chaudhuri juxtaposed with the cover to his book Friend of My Youth

Amit Chaudhuri’s Autofictive Bombay

July 24, 2019 |

Dipika Mukherjee leans over a railing, smiling, as she looks at the camera

Cultural Cross Sections

Five Weeks in Rimbun Dahan

July 23, 2019 |

The nine finalists for the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, arranged in a nine panel grid

News and Events

Nominees Announced for $50,000 “American Nobel”

July 21, 2019 |

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Women Writing Taiwan

July 18, 2019 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

The Writers Who Left: Cuban Exile and What Comes Next

July 10, 2019 |

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Creative Nonfiction

By Marginalia et al.

July 08, 2019 |

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