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January 27, 2017
January 20, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Last Friday, President Obama spoke about the indispensable role that books played during his presidency and throughout his life. The 2…
January 13, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Electric Literature rounds up a farewell to “Reader-in-Chief” President Obama, recalling each and every one of President Obama’s book recommendations, reading lists, b…
January 6, 2017News, Reviews, and Interviews Literary Hub examines the “Murakami effect” and how the dominance of English affects how authors reach an international audience. NPR’s Juan Vidal named five of the ye…
December 19, 2016As a combination of the visual enterprise of film and the innovative structure of graphic novels, video games are able to do things with narrative that no other medium has done before. Read more about…
December 16, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Obama administration speechwriter Jonathan Reiber writes about “the end of a literary presidency” in this Literary Hub article. Guernica interviews K…
December 13, 2016In our fifth annual list of “75 Notable Translations,” we again offer an admittedly incomplete collection of the year’s English translations. And again, we invite you to share your favorites from the…
December 9, 2016Munro’s Books in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo: ThreeFishSleeping/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Quartz examines the “giant influence” that Fidel Castro had on Latin American lite…
December 2, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews WLT contributing editor and Best Translated Book Award judge George Henson writes for Three Percent about the Neustadt Prize and keeping the foreign in transla…
November 18, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Award winners have been announced! Colson Whitehead, Ibram X. Kendi, and Daniel Borzutzky have won for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, respectively.…
November 11, 2016Students from the OU School of Drama who participated in the 2016 Neustadt Festival. News, Reviews, and Interviews Via PEN America, writers including Alexander Chee, Negin Farsad, Aleksandar Hemon, a…
November 4, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews American poet, children’s book author, and translator Marilyn Nelson is the laureate of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Literature! After accepting the 2016 Neustadt P…
November 1, 2016In a particularly gloomy United States election year that “has taken some dark—sometimes very dark—turns” and has recently inspired Canadians to join in a social media campaign to “Tell America It’s G…
October 21, 2016Photo by Steve Halama/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The Oklahoma Arts Council has announced the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award, and World Literature Today is among the recipients for t…
October 14, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Bob Dylan (a 2012 finalist for Neustadt Prize) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for having created new poetic expressions within the great America…
October 7, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 National Book Award finalists have been announced! WLT contributor Viet Thanh Nguyen and NSK Neustadt Prize finalist Jacqueline Woodson are among the t…
September 30, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Via the Boston Review, Rafia Zakaria presents a new series titled Reading Other Women that will focus on “reading as self-making.” The third annual Festival Alb…
September 23, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews In this PBS News Hour interview, the newly sworn-in librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, talks about being a “feisty fighter for freedom” and the first woman and African…
September 16, 2016Open books. Photo by Patrick Tomasso/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 National Book Awards longlist is now online, and the finalists will be revealed on October 13. Chicano author Rud…
September 9, 2016News, Reviews, and Interviews Three Percent has announced the judges for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award, and the guidelines for eligibility and submissions are online as well. WLT cont…
September 2, 2016Interior of the DOKK1 library in Aarhus, Denmark. Photo by Zorro2212/Wikimedia News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship winners have been ann…
August 26, 2016Photo by Syd Wachs/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews The September issue of WLT is here! Get your print or digital copy, or read the entire issue on the website for only $1.25 a month.…
August 18, 2016Photo by Eli Samuelu/Unsplash News, Reviews, and Interviews For #WITmonth, Words Without Borders lists 31 women authors in translation to read now. A “working-class academic” reports to VI…
August 12, 2016From the Carl Albert Center Congressional Resources Center. Wilburn Cartwright Collection, Photographs Series, Box 2, Item 191 News, Reviews, and Interviews In this Big Think video, NSK Neustadt Pri…
August 5, 2016The Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Lauro Maia/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews International visitors to the Rio 2016 Olympics can leave a little of their count…
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