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Chronicling Puerto Rico: Loretta Collins Klobah’s Ricantations

January 15, 2019 |

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The Bookshop Band Tours the US: A Conversation with the Bookshop Band

January 14, 2019 |

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Rimbaud’s Spiritual Battle

January 10, 2019 |

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Michael Bazzett’s New Popol Vuh: How Language Makes Us Human

January 07, 2019 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

Aulò, Aulò, Aulò!: On Ribka Sibhatu

January 03, 2019 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

Dust

December 20, 2018 |

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Under the Orange Trees of Gaza

December 18, 2018 |

News and Events

Announcing WLT’s 2018 Pushcart Prize Nominees

December 13, 2018 |

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News and Events

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2018

December 11, 2018 |

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The Land of Regal Elephants

December 07, 2018 |

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What We Translate When We Translate Literature: On Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory

December 04, 2018 |

Poet Meena Alexander

Meena

November 26, 2018 |

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Destigmatizing Mental Illness, One Poem at a Time

November 20, 2018 |

Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

11 Books for Tolerance & Understanding

November 16, 2018 |Alan Levenson, Daniel Simon

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Spider Babies Blowing

November 13, 2018 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

The BBC’s Top 100 Foreign Films: An Appreciation of Theo Angelopoulos’s Landscape in the Mist

November 06, 2018 |

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