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A photo of author Kat Meads juxtaposed with the cover to her book Miss Jane

Miss Jane: The Lost Years (an excerpt)

October 02, 2018 |

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No Formal Space for Intimacy (excerpts)

September 21, 2018 |

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Audrey Schulman in the Gutter of Genre

September 18, 2018 |

Neustadt Lit Fest International Books & Culture. October 9 through 11, 2018. The University of Oklahoma, Norman.

News and Events

Neustadt Lit Fest to Feature Haitian American Writer Edwidge Danticat

September 13, 2018 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

Stitching Nature and the Human Heart: The Poetry of Hélène Dorion

September 13, 2018 |

Author Dag Solstad juxtaposed with the cover to his book 'T Singer'

Norway’s Nowhere Man: Dag Solstad’s T Singer

September 11, 2018 |

A photo of a falcon juxtaposed with a photo of Marc Alyn

Cultural Cross Sections

Marc Alyn, the Quiet Monstre Sacré of French Poetry

September 06, 2018 |

Maps, maps, maps!

Two Poems

September 04, 2018 |

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Cultural Cross Sections

“My ghost you needn’t look for”: Searching for Jeffers in Carmel

August 28, 2018 |

World Literature Today Launch Party, Friday Sept. 14, 6-8 pm. The Depot: Norman, Oklahoma

News and Events

World Literature Today to Host Launch Party for Music and Lit Issue

August 21, 2018 |

The cover to Forget English! juxtaposed with the author Aamir Mufti

Decentering World Literature: Aamir Mufti’s Forget English!

August 23, 2018 |

Circling Marguerite Duras’s The Lover: A Translator’s Note

August 21, 2018 |

The sun sets on the opposite of the Mekong River

One Day (an excerpt)

August 21, 2018 |

A detail from the book cover to Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore

Soundtracking Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore

August 16, 2018 |

An abstract painting of a river in shades of gray

Contemporary Bengali Poetry in Translation: A Trajectory of New Worlds

August 14, 2018 |Devika Basu

Three Poems from Sudan

August 10, 2018 |

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