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…
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Lucy Yu, owner of Yu & Me Books. Photo credit: Olivia McCourry WALKING THROUGH THE streets during winter in New York City can be beautiful but also a challenge. You’re either…
What I like about essays is their sheer unpredictability and exuberance, their limitless range of subject matter, the way in which, within short compass, they give access to all kinds of perspectives.…
Anna Badkhen Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays New York Review Books Bright Unbearable Reality is a book of micro and macro scales: piscine, tidal, musical,…
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…
A view of Lagos Marina | Photo by Namnso Ukpanah on Unsplash THE WOMEN SLIDE through stalled traffic, balancing on their colorful head scarves baskets of plantains for sale,…
Burggarten, Allee bei Schneelage, Österreich, Wien, 1. Bezirk. AS I ENTERED the Burggarten on a snowy evening, I noticed a life-size statue of a monk when a large midnight-blue b…
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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…
Leonid Pasternak, Boris beside the Baltic at Mereküla (1910), oil on canvas In August 2021 University of Oklahoma alumnus Ron K. Jones donated a letter that he had received in 19…
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Peter Stamm The Sweet Indifference of the World Trans. Michael Hofman Other Press “PLEASE COME TO Skogskyrkogården to…
THE NOVELISTS Pat Barker and Douglas Stuart were both born into poverty, victims of the de-industrialization that swept like a wrecking ball through the British Isles during the…
IF YOU SEE this city for the first time, it may seem as if it has just sprung to life overnight, such is its chaotic charm; it sits atop an elevated earth at three thousand meters a…
THERE ARE SOME moments in life when, upon entering a room, you realize you have stumbled upon that disturbing border where passion rubs up against obsession. In Baku, Azerbaijan, th…
I’VE BEEN THINKING a lot about how much of my own writing resembles “correspondences,” as my friend calls it, whether being conversations with visual artists such as Agnes Martin or E…
View from the poet’s roof, Tumbalá, Chiapas / Photo by Carol Rose Little TO VIST THE Ch’ol poet Juana Peñate Montejo’s house in Chiapas, Mexico, requires several flights, at…
Hwang Sok-yong The Prisoner: A Memoir Trans. Sora Kim-Russell & Anton Hur Verso, 2021 Written by renowned Korean author and famous democracy activist Hwang So…
Manchester Cathedral, England “THE CITY CENTRE was at once beautiful and scary. . . . The infrastructure alone—of brick and stone—was forbidding. The skyline—d…
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Kwon Yeo-sun Lemon Trans. Janet Hong Other Press LEMON BEGINS LIKE many crime dramas: someone’s been murdered and the police are interro…
I THINK I WILL FOREVER be just a little bit in love with young adult (YA) literature, no matter how old I get. While I’m not terribly discriminatory about genres, I do have ste…
THE FACT THAT Mehrnaz Shirazi Adl’s story “Anahita” has made it to English-language readers is, in itself, a bit of a miracle. Due to wide-reaching sanctions on Iran, here in t…