WLT  Weekly

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Culture

Affective Hierarchies: Viewer Bias and Female Suffering in Severance

April 15, 2025 | Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
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On Translation

A Reply to Wendy Call and Whitney DeVos

April 08, 2025 | Veronica Esposito
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On Translation

“Language as Refuge”: A Letter to the Editor

April 08, 2025 | Wendy Call, Whitney DeVos
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Poetry

Four Chilean American Poems

April 07, 2025 | Marcelo Rioseco
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Essay

Who We Forget When We Talk about Irish Literature: Identity and Northern Irish Authors

April 04, 2025 | Terryn Ward
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News and Events

Help World Literature Today, Your Passport to Great Reading, Raise $5,000 in 24 hours!

April 01, 2025 | The Editors of WLT
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Essay

Is There Hope in Actual Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia?

March 27, 2025 | Michael M. Naydan
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Book Reviews

The Search for Meaning in Ostap Slyvynsky’s Ukrainian Dictionary of War

March 26, 2025 | Nicole Yurcaba
Lea Goldberg, Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā, and Almog Behar
News and Events

Editor in Chief Daniel Simon to Give Talk on the Multilingual Literatures of Israel

March 25, 2025 | The Editors of WLT
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Interviews

Responding to Nezahualcóyotl: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans

March 20, 2025 | Susan Smith Nash
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Lit Lists

10 International Dystopian Novels about Authoritarian Regimes

March 19, 2025 | Lala Mammadova
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman and D. P. Snyder
News and Events

WLT to Co-Sponsor Talk by Distinguished Mexican Jewish Writer Angelina Muñiz-Huberman and D. P. Snyder

March 18, 2025 | The Editors of WLT
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Poetry

War Haiku

March 13, 2025 | Bacol Serlui
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Book Reviews

Precious Madness: Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest Is Silence

March 12, 2025 | Alejandro Lámbarry
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Lit Lists

20 Environmental Literature Recommendations: Books That Celebrate Human Life, Plants, and Nature

March 11, 2025 | Emiley White
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Creative Nonfiction

When the Door Was Open

March 06, 2025 | Angela Townsend