WLT  Weekly

Portuguese Library in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Lauro Maia/Flickr
Lit Lists

Rio’s Olympic book donations, the Man Booker’s effect on small presses, and more

August 05, 2016 |
Tujia shamans / Courtesy of Fang Qi
Fiction

Elegy of a River Shaman (an excerpt)

August 03, 2016 |
Life in Peacetime
Book Reviews

Bridging the Black Water: A Review of Life in Peacetime, by Bhisham Bherwani

August 01, 2016 |
Stack of books
Lit Lists

2016 Man Booker Prize longlist, Hemingway look-alikes, and more

July 29, 2016 |
Mohammadali F., “Daffodils,” Tehran, 2009
Poetry

Four Love Poems from Iran

July 27, 2016 |
Radio Atlas screencapture
Lit Lists

If writers billed by the hour, a new interview with Etgar Keret, and more

July 22, 2016 |
Esther Schwarz, “Lush (66/365),” 2009. For more of Schwarz’s photos, visit Inside My Shell.
Poetry

Two Poems from Portugal

July 20, 2016 |
In the Cafe of Lost Youth
Book Reviews

Memories Unmoored: A Review of In the Café of Lost Youth, by Patrick Modiano

July 18, 2016 |
Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr
Lit Lists

The U.S. Poet Laureate’s “sudden poem,” libraries and Pokémon Go, and more

July 15, 2016 |
Public domain drawing of Joseph dreaming.
Fiction

The Amazing Adventures of a Certified Medical Interpreter

July 13, 2016 |
Aaron Brown, “Brickyard,” Ati, Chad, March 2007
Poetry

Return to Africa: Two Poems

July 11, 2016 |
Photo from the Tulsa Race Riot
Eye on Culture

Race Matters Episode 5: Novelist Rilla Askew Sheds Light on Tulsa Race Riot and Today’s Racial Unrest

July 06, 2016 |
Christopher, Tania, and Isabelle Luna, “Mountains and Rain” (the hills of Fuzhou), September 2009
Poetry

Two Poems from Fuzhou, China

July 05, 2016 |
Brexit tea pot with "Now Panic and Freak Out"
Lit Lists

The “Brexit delusion,” the evolution of the book, and more

July 01, 2016 |
Jose Antonio Vargas holds a sign at a Mitt Romney presidential campaign rally in 2011 in a scene from his film “Documented.” Photo courtesy of Apo Anak Productions.
Eye on Culture

Race Matters Episode 4: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Explores Race And Immigration

June 29, 2016 |
Beyond the Barbed Wire: Selected Poems of Abdellatif Laâbi
Poetry

Death: A Poem

June 28, 2016 |