WLT  Weekly

Books
Lit Lists

The Best Translated Book Award Longlists, Bob Dylan agrees to accept Nobel Prize, and more

March 31, 2017 |
Roberto Giannotti, “Island within an Island,” August 28, 2012
Cultural Cross Sections

Multitasking: The Narrative Alchemy of Maylis de Kerangal

March 29, 2017 |
BTBA 2017
News and Events

Tenth Annual Best Translated Book Award Longlists Announced

March 28, 2017 |
Stuttgart Library
Lit Lists

Authors on the life-changing impact of the NEA, a new prize for women in translation, and more

March 24, 2017 |
Swallowing Mercury
Book Reviews

The Stranger and Her Escapes: A Review of Swallowing Mercury, by Wioletta Greg

March 20, 2017 |
Library with books
Lit Lists

The Man Booker Prize longlist, recent protest novels, and more

March 17, 2017 |
Anna Frajlich-Zając / Courtesy of Culture.pl
Cultural Cross Sections

Beyond Exile: Reclaiming Anna Frajlich

March 15, 2017 |
Person reading a book with blanket and sunlight
Lit Lists

#Read4Refugees, the diverse finalists for the PEN/Faulkner award, and more

March 10, 2017 |
Between Day and Night
Book Reviews

Two Tongues, One Heart: A Review of Between Day and Night: New and Selected Poems, 1946–2010, by Miguel González-Gerth

March 08, 2017 |
Small outdoor library box with books in English and Spanish
Lit Lists

The Windham-Campbell Prize winners, a new urgency of language exchange, and more

March 03, 2017 |
Eybers’s poem “Taalles” (Language Lesson) on the wall of the Anne Frank School in Leiden / Source: Wikimedia
On Translation

An Afrikaans Poet in Amsterdam: Translating Elisabeth Eybers

February 27, 2017 |
Owlie by Bartosz Bochynski, FUTUMATA / London, England
Lit Lists

PEN’s 2017 literary award winners, a 75-year overdue library book, and more

February 24, 2017 |
Bunches and Bits {Karina}, “Sepia,” November 2009
On Translation

Contemporary Faces of the River Merchant’s Wife

February 21, 2017 |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ta-Neihisi Coates in conversation at AWP / Photo: Alexandra Goodman
From the Road

Three Takeaways from AWP 2017

February 20, 2017 |
Person wearing a hat and laying in green grass reading a book.
Lit Lists

World literature at #AWP17, 10 libraries with gardens, and more

February 17, 2017 |
Doron Rabinovici, Photograph © Marko Lipuš
Book Reviews

Longing for a Homeland: A Review of Elsewhere, by Doron Rabinovici

February 15, 2017 |