On Saturday, November 18 at 10am cst, the “RESISTIR Groupe” of Latin American PEN Centers, World Literature Today, and Latin American Literature Today will co-host an event,…
The Editors of WLT
October 31, 2023
Arpino, Cicero’s birthplace, is about 100 kilometers southeast of Rome. These studies [of literature] are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comf…
August 29, 2023World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will host a book signing with Native writers Chelsea T. Hicks…
Prince Shakur When They Tell You to Be Good Tin House This debut memoir made many best-of-fall lists and won the Hurston/Wright Crossover Award. Shakur’s memoir charts his political coming of age,…
Whitman Road, Nebraska Sandhills | Photo © Michael Forsberg | www.michaelforsberg.com Sometimes referred to as “flyover states,” the states of the middle US are home to much worth seeing, includin…
So many books, so little time—even in the summer. Of the many new choices, here are six that caught our eye, a handful of fiction and nonfiction that promises reflection, adventure, and, yes, even fun…
“The French critic Albert Thibaudet proposed in one of his books on the novel a distinction between two kinds of reader: the liseur and the lecteur. I do not know whether a similar differentiating nua…
May 2, 2023Isobelle Ouzman, Peace for Ukraine (2022; detail), miniature plain paper journal, ink, color pencils, art knife, glue / isobelleouzman.com / By permission of the artist What’s the best bo…
Photo by Leiada Krozjhen / Unsplash “People who love books find it difficult to get along without them, but millions in the war-devastated areas today are forced to live, work, and study with prac…
March 20, 2023Photo by Jens Maes / Unsplash There has been plenty of handwringing among some over whether it’s too soon to write pandemic literature, but these five books answer that question with a firm n…
February 28, 2023The editors of World Literature Today are nominating the May/June 2022 “Muses” issue for the annual Best Cover Contest sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the principal o…
We’re intrigued by these short, often speculative fictions arriving early this year. No Edges: Swahili Stories Trans. Various Two Lines Press In April, Two Lines…
A Sufi in Ecstasy in a Landscape, Iran, Isfahan, circa 1650–1660. The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, LA County Museum of Art “Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980) has pres…
February 2, 2023On Wednesday, March 1, 2023, from 12:00–1:30pm est, World Literature Today, the Romanoff Center for Russian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, the University of Pennsylvania’s Departmen…
Festival Presenters Anna Badkhen and Marame Gueye / Photo by Gavyn Redd FOR THE FIRST time since the start of the pandemic, World Literature Today resumed hosti…
It’s a new year, and we’re looking forward to new books. Here are eight scheduled for publication in January and February—fiction, poetry, and nonfiction—to get a strong start on a new year of rea…
Photo by Erin Doering on Unsplash “After extensive renovations and the repair of bomb damage incurred during World War II, the famous Reading Room of the British Museum, London, has been reop…
October 31, 2022“Tar Creek Below Contamination Area,” “Chat Pile,” and “Sinkhole,” from Picher, Oklahoma, by Todd Stewart worldlittoday · “Red Dirt and Brownfields: Humanities Perspectives on Ecol…
Dhumketu The Shenai Virtuoso: And Other Stories Trans. Jenny Bhatt Deep Vellum DEEP VELLUM PUBLISHED this first substantial collection of Dhumketu…
November 16, 2023Photo by Amador Loureiro / Unsplash Submissions open: November 15, 2023, to January 5, 2024 ~ for translations published during 2023 ~ early submissions encouraged At midnight…
Paz receiving the 1982 Neustadt Prize from University of Oklahoma president William Banowsky “I wonder—once more, now, when everything seems about to go up in flame again—if there is a place…
Eleni Kefala Time Stitches Trans. Peter Constantine Deep Vellum We’ve been waiting for this new collection of poems by WLT contributor Eleni Kefala. The Greek or…
Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale (2017) / Courtesy of IMDB “When Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale appeared in 1986, readers regarded it as interesting scienc…
May 23, 2022Top Row (left to right): William Alexander, Raúl Colón, Veera Hiranandani. Middle row: Jessica Kim, Trung Le Nguyen (credit: Laura Duholm), Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich. Bottom row: Lawrence Sch…
May 17, 2022The 2022 Student Translation Prize Winners, Emily Graham and Aziza Kasumov. Aziza Kasumov and Emily Graham were recently named the recipients of the fifth annual translation prize for st…
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