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Mexican Writer Guadalupe Nettel to Headline Puterbaugh Festival at OU

January 13, 2025 |The Editors of WLT
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Jewish Life in Harbin, China: A Conversation with Jean Hoffmann Lewanda

January 07, 2025 |Susan Blumberg-Kason
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WLT Announces Best Literary Translations 2026 Nominees and 2025 Shortlisted Titles

December 19, 2024 |The Editors of WLT
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Fiction

Good Enough for Now (an excerpt)

December 18, 2024 |Jason M. Thornberry
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Creative Nonfiction

Can the Tooth Fairy Pay in Hong Kong Dollars?

December 17, 2024 |Wong Yi
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Book Reviews

Unspoken Realities of Displacement: Gunel Movlud’s The Camp: A Little Girl from Karabakh

December 12, 2024 |Lala Mammadova
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On Translation

The Most Translated Authors

December 11, 2024 |Veronica Esposito
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Lit Lists

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2024

December 10, 2024 |Michelle Johnson
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Essay

Language of White Bones: The Secrets of Han Kang’s Poetic Prose

December 06, 2024 |Eun-Gwi Chung
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Lit Lists

17 Literary Romance Recommendations: Books about Love, Life, and Time

December 05, 2024 |Emiley White
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Announcing WLT’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees

December 02, 2024 |The Editors of WLT
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Poetry, Audio Poetry

Two Poems from the Galilee

November 26, 2024 |Rachel Tzvia Back
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Poetry

Four Palestinian Poems from Jerusalem

November 22, 2024 |Najwan Darwish
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Poetry

Two Ladino Poems from Argentina

November 21, 2024 |Juan Gelman
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The Language of Survival and Resistance: A Review of Shereen Malherbe’s Yassini Girls

November 19, 2024 |Zeynep Alp
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Interviews

Making Love to an Ancient Poem: In Conversation with Arundhathi Subramaniam

November 18, 2024 |Graziano Krätli

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