WLT  Weekly

Open books. Photo by Patrick Tomasso/Unsplash
Lit Lists

Sweden’s ancient forest language, the “thrill” of etymology, and more

September 16, 2016 |
Tony Webster, Dakota Access Pipeline protest at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, August 25, 2016
Poetry

Noir

September 15, 2016 |
Quinn Dombrowski, “Velvet Flower,” 2008
Poetry

Four Poems by a Polish Holocaust Survivor

September 13, 2016 |
Zofia and Kazimierz Romanowicz in front of the Galerie Lambert in 1962 / Courtesy of the Archiwum Emigracji, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Toruń, Poland
The Once Over

The Renaissance of Zofia Romanowicz (1922–2010)

September 13, 2016 |
Kindle book
Lit Lists

The judges for the 2017 BTBA awards, women’s writing, and more

September 09, 2016 |
Senior Airman Deng Deng, Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, September 2009. As one of the “Lost Boys” of the Sudan, Deng was allowed to immigrate to the United States and participate in a language and education immersion program. His dream is that one day his whole family can join him. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lance Cheung / Flickr)
Cultural Cross Sections

Resettling in the United States: A Fiction’s Telling

September 06, 2016 |
DOKK1 library in Aarhus, Denmark interior. Photo by Zorro2212/Wikimedia
Lit Lists

Denmark’s library of the future, Alejandro Zambra’s challenge to the literary genre, and more

September 02, 2016 |
Ignacio Padilla (date unknown) / Source: Ibero 90.9
Literary Tributes

The Short-Story Physicist: A Tribute to Ignacio Padilla

August 31, 2016 |
On the Mexico City subway (2016) / Still from a film by Carolina Rueda
On Translation

Surrealism on the Subway: Translating “Universidad–Indios Verdes” by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

August 30, 2016 |
Lit Lists

NEA Literary Translation Fellowship recipients, Cuba’s thriving sci-fi, and more

August 26, 2016 |
Amit Majmudar
Interviews

Poet, Radiologist, and 007 Wannabe: A Conversation with Amit Majmudar, Ohio’s First Poet Laureate

August 22, 2016 |
Stacks of books in a room with a window
Lit Lists

A book revolution in Somalia, reading Brazil, and more

August 18, 2016 |
Car lights at night.
Fiction

An Archangel Named Gabriel

August 17, 2016 |
I'll Sell You a Dog
On Translation

New Translations in August

August 16, 2016 |
From the Carl Albert Center Congressional Resources Center. Wilburn Cartwright Collection, Photographs Series, Box 2, Item 191
Lit Lists

The end of a Franz Kafka legal battle, how to receive criticism, and more

August 12, 2016 |
The Incarnations by Susan Barker, and The Red Violin
Cultural Cross Sections

The Cultural Revolution as Subnarrative

August 10, 2016 |