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News and Events

Daniel Simon Wins 2018 Nebraska Book Award

October 22, 2018 |

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Mrs. Black (an excerpt)

October 19, 2018 |

Photo © Marshall W. Johnson

News and Events

Margarita Engle Named Winner of the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

October 09, 2018 |

Cultural Cross Sections

Upon Learning That My Book Is Banned in Kuwait

October 10, 2018 |

The cover to Matthew Turner's book Sweden with a photo of Turner juxtaposed

A Playlist for Sweden

October 04, 2018 |

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 |

A rugged tower rises to the left of a stone house, both of which sit at the edge of the ocean

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 |

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