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Poetry

Three Poems from Kurdistan

September 03, 2019 |

Reimagining Folktales, But for the Ear: A Conversation with Mahsuda Snaith

August 30, 2019 |

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

August 21, 2019 |

News and Events

World Literature Today Wins APEX award

August 21, 2019 |

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On the Brink of Silence

August 20, 2019 |

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Lit Lists

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

August 15, 2019 |

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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 |

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Writing to Uganda: A Conversation with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

August 06, 2019 |

Literary Activism

Lit Lists

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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Fiction

Flamingo #13 of the Caspian Sea

July 25, 2019 |

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Amit Chaudhuri’s Autofictive Bombay

July 24, 2019 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

Five Weeks in Rimbun Dahan

July 23, 2019 |

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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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