WLT  Weekly

A photograph of dark crimson pomegranate seeds delicately laid out on snow
Poetry

Persephone

September 08, 2021 | Hasan Alizadeh
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Culture

Balancing on the Edge of Fashion and Art: A Conversation with Amber Ambrose Aurèle

September 07, 2021 | Margaret Larmuth
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Poetry

What Is Difficult

September 01, 2021 | Tove Ditlevsen
A woman veiled from head to toe, holding a child, as she looks at a stone wall with a flag flying above
Poetry

A Plane the Size of Afghanistan

August 31, 2021 | Ibtisam Barakat
A photograph of Niagara Falls with a bird flying in the spray
Poetry

Sea Grammar 1: Fowle Water

August 25, 2021 | Briony Hughes
A photograph of a forest with the sun just barely coming through the canopy
Black Voices

Two Poems

August 25, 2021 | Ariana Benson
Spray painted words adorn the side of a boarded up building. Text reads: Stop killing black people. Black Lives Matter. No justice. No peace.
Black Voices

Black Voices 2021: A Series Introduction

August 25, 2021 | Mahtem Shiferraw
A photograph of a row of sardines laying mouth agape on a bed of ice
Poetry

Two Bilingual Poems from Spain

August 24, 2021 | Juan Carlos Mestre
A photograph of the interior of the The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, mostly swallowed in darkness with a small path lit in the center and small slits visible on the walls
Book Reviews

Of Roots and Reckonings: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois

August 19, 2021 | Adele Newson-Horst
A photograph of David Weiden juxtaposed with the cover to his book Winter Counts
Book Reviews

Crime and Punishment on the Rosebud: David Weiden’s Winter Counts

August 18, 2021 | Brenna O’Hara
A postcard, mostly white with fields of green, blue, and read below, suggestive of waves. The text reads "Everyday in this city, there are always some things or others quietly bidding us farewell, and them gradually disappearing."
Essay

Hands: On Two Hong Kong Prose Essays by Xi Xi

August 17, 2021 | Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
A photo of a Hindu god, wrapped in a turban, strongly lit from below with darkness behind
Culture

Gouranga

August 12, 2021 | Jitendra Nath Misra
A photograph of the silhouette of a large bird sitting on a bare tree branch, foregrounded against a peach colored sky
Poetry

Cleaners

August 10, 2021 | Vladimir Pryakhin
The cover to Emilio Fraia's Sevastopol juxtaposed with a photograph of the author
Interviews

Keeping a Critical Eye on Brazil: A Conversation with Emilio Fraia

August 09, 2021 | Anderson Tepper
Water-logged trash, including a child's mylar balloon, a notebook and a sandal, lay on a tree branch with a lake stretching out in the background behind it
Book Reviews

A Poetry of Estrangement: Moheb Soliman’s Great Lakes Palimpsest

August 05, 2021 | Shir Alon
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News and Events

WLT Book Buzz Episode #2 - Reading History: Partition, the Tulsa Race Massacre, Bold Women & More

August 04, 2021 | WLT