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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
Book Reviews

Decentering World Literature: Aamir Mufti’s Forget English!

August 23, 2018 |
On Translation

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

August 21, 2018 |
The sun sets on the opposite of the Mekong River
On Translation

One Day (an excerpt)

August 21, 2018 |
A detail from the book cover to Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
Sound It Out

Soundtracking Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore

August 16, 2018 |
An abstract painting of a river in shades of gray
Eye on Culture

Contemporary Bengali Poetry in Translation: A Trajectory of New Worlds

August 14, 2018 | Devika Basu
Poetry

Three Poems from Sudan

August 10, 2018 |
A photograph of a sunrise over the waters off of Ithaca in Greece
Poetry

Three Poems from Greece

August 07, 2018 |
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Poetry

Old New Griefs

August 02, 2018 |
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Cultural Cross Sections

Hill Elementary

July 31, 2018 |
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Poetry

Ode to an Apron

July 26, 2018 |
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Book Reviews

Mame Bougouma Diene and the Promise of African Horror

July 24, 2018 |
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Poetry

Four Poems

July 18, 2018 |
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Lit Lists

Going the Distance: Three Summer Reads

July 16, 2018 |
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Lit Lists

Friday Lit Links β€” Week of July 13

July 13, 2018 |
A photo of Karl Ove KnausgΓ₯rd juxtaposed with the partial cover to his book Autumn
Eye on Culture

Postmodern Idylls Framed for Family: Reading Karl Ove KnausgΓ₯rd’s Autumn

July 11, 2018 |

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