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Adolfo Bioy Casares

The Celestial Team

September 15, 2014 |

Authors as programmers, Seamus Heaney’s postage stamp, and more

September 12, 2014 |

Kim Myung Won

Cultural Cross Sections, On Translation

The Mythology of “I” in Translation: Kim Myung Won’s “Dabi”

September 09, 2014 |

Jim Spurr

Literary Tributes

Remembering Jim Spurr

September 05, 2014 |

Hartwig HKD, “Black Icarus,” 2010

Cultural Cross Sections

Icaruses

September 04, 2014 |

25 Books that Inspired the World

News and Events

Cast Your Vote! 25 Books That Inspired the World (1989–2014)

September 01, 2014 |

Elena Ferrante’s identity, literacy programs at SXSW, and more

August 29, 2014 |

What you see when you read, the Lioness of Iran, and more

August 22, 2014 |

The May 2014 issue of WLT

Reading the Double Issue

August 20, 2014 |

Protestors dressed as zombies in Slovenia. Photo by Jumpin' Jack/Flickr

Fiction, On Translation

Day of the Living Dead

August 19, 2014 |

WWI poetry, print vs. digital reading, and more

August 15, 2014 |

32 by Sahar Mandour

Hayat (an excerpt from 32)

August 14, 2014 |

Diary of the Fall

New Translations in August

August 12, 2014 |

Pashtun poetry, #ireadeverywhere, and more

August 08, 2014 |

Dorothy Stafford, Kit Stafford, Hideo Hashimoto, and William Stafford

Words for Thought

The William Stafford Centennial 2014: 100 Years of Poetry and Peace

August 06, 2014 |

M. Flickr

Words for Thought, Current Events

Right Now

August 04, 2014 |

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