WLT  Weekly

News and Events

Edwidge Danticat is 2018 Winner of Prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature

November 09, 2017 |
Interviews

Thoughts on Bad News in Children’s Lit and Buzz Lightyear: A Conversation with Chad Reynolds and Hanan Awad

November 08, 2017 |
Current Events

Who Will Win the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature?

November 07, 2017 |
Lit Lists

Friday Lit Links: Week of Nov. 3

November 03, 2017 |
From the Road

Letter from London: “Nordic Matters” and Literature from the Brink

November 01, 2017 |
On Translation

Erasmus’ Treasury

October 31, 2017 |
Lit Lists

Friday Lit Links: Week of Oct. 27

October 27, 2017 |
Bottles of San Pellegrino
Cultural Cross Sections

Ninotchka on My Mind

October 23, 2017 |
Malka Older / Photo by Allana Taranto
Interviews

Political Misinformation, Statelessness, and Disaster Recovery: A Conversation with Malka Older

October 18, 2017 |
Clifden Bookshop, Galway / Photo by janmennens
Cultural Cross Sections

The Diversification of Irish Literature: White Truth or White Lie?

October 16, 2017 |
An open book
Lit Lists

Friday Lit Links: The International Writing Program’s 50th anniversary and more

October 13, 2017 |
Dickens reading to his daughters. Right: Pickwick Papers cover
Cultural Cross Sections

Audiobooks and Charles Dickens’s Victorian Practice of Reading Aloud

October 11, 2017 |
Left: Layli Long Soldier. Right: Book cover for Whereas
Book Reviews

Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas Interrogates and Subverts a National Apology to Native Americans

October 09, 2017 |
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Photo by Tanasha Pina
Lit Lists

Friday Lit Links: Nobel prizewinner Kazuo Ishiguro, Returning the Gift literary festival, and more

October 06, 2017 |
Fatou Diome / Courtesy of frenchculture.org
Cultural Cross Sections

Senegalese Migrant Novelist Fatou Diome Is Now the Militant Marianne

October 04, 2017 |
This poster was published in a special issue of Rocinante in 1971. The entire issue was dedicated to Valdivia on the second anniversary of her death.
On Translation

La Comandante Maya: Rita Valdivia on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Death of Che Guevara

October 03, 2017 |