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News and Events

Ibrahim Nasrallah Wins the 2026 Neustadt Prize

October 21, 2025 | The Editors of WLT
Judith Hemschemeyer with the cover to her translation of Anna Akhmatova's Selected Poems
Literary Tributes

Pilgrimage and Passion Project: Remembering Judith Hemschemeyer

October 20, 2025 | Renee H. Shea
An aged picture of a family gathered around a table
Essay

The Colors of Poetry: Anna Frajlich’s Lifework

October 17, 2025 | Alice-Catherine Carls
The covers to the two books discussed below
Book Reviews

Reassessing Exile and Diaspora: A Review of Exile and the Jews and Letters from Home

October 16, 2025 | Alan Levenson
Megha Sood with the cover to her book Language of the Wound Is Love
Interviews

Taming the Disorder: A Conversation with Megha Sood

October 15, 2025 | Mbizo Chirasha
A collage of the three covers to the books discussed below
Essay

Ways We Survive (or How Fiction Helps Us to Understand Violence)

October 14, 2025 | Catalina Infante Beovic
Arturo Fontaine with the cover to his book Y entonces Teresa
Book Reviews

The Incoherence of Love: Arturo Fontaine’s Y entonces Teresa

October 09, 2025 | Will H. Corral
Fereshteh Molavi with the cover to her book Thirty Shadow Birds
Essay

Simorgh in Exile: Reimagining Iranian Diaspora in Fereshteh Molavi’s Thirty Shadow Birds

October 07, 2025 | Mahdiyeh Ezzati
A collage of the covers to the book discussed below
Lit Lists

10 International New and Upcoming Horror Novels for Fall 2025

October 03, 2025 | Amber M. Durst
José Luís Peixoto with the cover to his book Homecoming
Book Reviews

The Self Is a Book Made of Expanded Memories: José Luís Peixoto’s Homecoming

October 01, 2025 | Irene Marques
Sonallah Ibrahim with the cover to several of his books
Essay

Remembering the Egyptian Novelist Sonallah Ibrahim: “Taking a Scalpel to the Communist Dream”

September 30, 2025 | Gretchen McCullough
Elaine U. Cho with the cover to her book Teo's Durumi
Interviews

When Science Fiction Is an Invitation: A Conversation with Elaine U. Cho

September 25, 2025 | Emily Doyle
An illustration of a human figure lying on its back in a river with a boat floating nearby and large plants rising from the water
Essay

The Phonetic Uterus: A Journey through Language and Identity

September 24, 2025 | Arya Gopi
A tiled collage of Kiriti Sengupta's Selected Poems
Book Reviews

A Bustling-Personal Renegade against Fake Anonymity: Kiriti Sengupta’s Selected Poems

September 23, 2025 | Somudranil Sarkar
Patricio Ferrari and Nikola Madžirov conversing on a stage
Interviews

“With Each New Poem, We’re Reborn”: A Conversation with Nikola Madžirov

September 18, 2025 | Patricio Ferrari
Mahreen Sohail with the cover to her book Small Scale Sinners
Interviews

Crafting Stories and Sinful Pleasures: A Conversation with Mahreen Sohail

September 17, 2025 | Keija Parssinen