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Last Friday, President Obama spoke about the indispensable role that books played during his presidency and throughout his life.
The 2…
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January 20, 2017
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…
March 27, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams News, Reviews, and Interviews Jonathan Stalling, deputy editor in chief of our sister publication Chinese Literature Today, joins in this radio conversa…
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Todd Fredson’s translations of francophone African, specifically Ivorian, poetic voices over the past decade mark an important contribution to…
Photo by Michel Banabila / FlickrDinosaurs
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poured over rebar ribcage,…
Katie Gee Salisbury first came across Anna May Wong when she was doing a college internship and found an old black-and-white photo of the starlet…
Photo by Seong Ji Min Clayhouse Inc.Hwang Bo-reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, translated by Shanna Tan, was…
Photo by New Africa / Adobestock.comIn her column Untranslatable, Veronica Esposito considers why various words are so difficult to translate.…
