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Teaching translation, PEN Literary Awards, and more

August 01, 2014 |

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Words for Thought

Three Poems for Gaza

July 29, 2014 |

Piotr Florczyk

Words for Thought

Tabula Rasa

July 28, 2014 |

Struggling with language, quirky book gifts, and more

July 25, 2014 |

News and Events

Coming in the September Issue of WLT

July 24, 2014 |

Kathleen Heil

The Great Pongoni

July 22, 2014 |

Bench by a bay. Photo by Julie Skarwecki/Flickr

Visting the Master

July 21, 2014 |

Woeser under house arrest, the Best European Fiction 2016, and more

July 18, 2014 |

The Elusive Moth

New Translations in July

July 15, 2014 |

Nadine Gordimer

Literary Tributes, News and Events

Across Time and Two Hemispheres

July 14, 2014 |

Enid Shomer

Gustave + Florence = A Victorian Novel for the Modern Reader: A Conversation with Enid Shomer

July 10, 2014 |

The corner of Ipiranga at Avenue São João. Photo by Ricardo Romanoff.

Translating “Sampa” by Caetano Veloso

July 08, 2014 |

Denise Newman

On Translation, Interviews

Revelation through Restraint in Naja Marie Aidt’s Writing: A Conversation with Denise Newman

July 01, 2014 |

Yellow Tulips

On Translation, Fiction

The Woman in the Bar

July 01, 2014 |

George Saunders on satire, millionaire poets, and more

June 27, 2014 |

The Dance of a Sham by Paul Emond

June Translations

June 24, 2014 |

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