World Literature Today
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One of the world’s longest-published literary magazines, now in its 99th year. Your passport to great reading. Online at https://worldliteraturetoday.org/.
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Hello, Bluesky community! We're a magazine dedicated to international literature and culture published at the University of Oklahoma. We publish fiction, essays, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and more—including many translations. We look forward to connecting with you here.
It’s time for our end-of-the-year list of 75 Notable Translations! We hope you’ll find ideas for your reading list and let us know what you’d add to ours. We celebrate all the translators and publishers doing this important work!
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December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It’s time for our end-of-the-year list of 75 Notable Translations! We hope you’ll find ideas for your reading list and let us know what you’d add to ours. We celebrate all the translators and publishers doing this important work!
worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...
worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lis...
“When an ancient-rock splits open —
trees and skies starkly mirror
the tectonic drama on the stone’s gaping
weathered face. . . .”
From “Split Fossil,” one of two poems from South Africa by Sudeep Sen
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trees and skies starkly mirror
the tectonic drama on the stone’s gaping
weathered face. . . .”
From “Split Fossil,” one of two poems from South Africa by Sudeep Sen
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December 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“When an ancient-rock splits open —
trees and skies starkly mirror
the tectonic drama on the stone’s gaping
weathered face. . . .”
From “Split Fossil,” one of two poems from South Africa by Sudeep Sen
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
trees and skies starkly mirror
the tectonic drama on the stone’s gaping
weathered face. . . .”
From “Split Fossil,” one of two poems from South Africa by Sudeep Sen
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
“In Aflame: Learning from Silence, Iyer’s intermittent retreat to a Big Sur monastery for three long decades prompts reflections on silent sobriety, lit with flashes of epiphany.” – Rachita Swain
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December 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“In Aflame: Learning from Silence, Iyer’s intermittent retreat to a Big Sur monastery for three long decades prompts reflections on silent sobriety, lit with flashes of epiphany.” – Rachita Swain
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Take care of your holiday shopping right here with a gift subscription to World Literature Today. We’re heading into our 100th year of continuous publication next year. We hope you’ll subscribe and celebrate with us!
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December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Take care of your holiday shopping right here with a gift subscription to World Literature Today. We’re heading into our 100th year of continuous publication next year. We hope you’ll subscribe and celebrate with us!
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“In the end, the novel’s commitment to the “dense undergrowth” behind the mundane details of relation allows it to operate in simultaneously tragic and comic registers.” – Molly MacVeagh
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December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“In the end, the novel’s commitment to the “dense undergrowth” behind the mundane details of relation allows it to operate in simultaneously tragic and comic registers.” – Molly MacVeagh
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“Gu Yan has an excellent eye for what is happening, a deep empathy for her characters, and a straightforward yet skillfully crafted way of writing.”
Laura Xie reviews this “meditation on the divided nature of immigrant life.”
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Laura Xie reviews this “meditation on the divided nature of immigrant life.”
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December 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“Gu Yan has an excellent eye for what is happening, a deep empathy for her characters, and a straightforward yet skillfully crafted way of writing.”
Laura Xie reviews this “meditation on the divided nature of immigrant life.”
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Laura Xie reviews this “meditation on the divided nature of immigrant life.”
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Bringing together her practices as a translator and interpreter, linguist Carol Rose Little is challenged to hold space for voices not her own and to reckon with what it means to speak for someone without speaking over them.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Bringing together her practices as a translator and interpreter, linguist Carol Rose Little is challenged to hold space for voices not her own and to reckon with what it means to speak for someone without speaking over them.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
“Zapata is a masterful writer of the ripple effect.”
Arthur Malcolm Dixon reviews this “conversation Isabel Zapata is having with others and with herself.”
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Arthur Malcolm Dixon reviews this “conversation Isabel Zapata is having with others and with herself.”
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December 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“Zapata is a masterful writer of the ripple effect.”
Arthur Malcolm Dixon reviews this “conversation Isabel Zapata is having with others and with herself.”
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Arthur Malcolm Dixon reviews this “conversation Isabel Zapata is having with others and with herself.”
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“Ziolkowski wrote and published thirty-five monographs—twenty of them in the last nineteen years of his life, following his retirement from Princeton.”
Eric Ziolkowski pays tribute to his late father, Theodore Ziolkowski.
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Eric Ziolkowski pays tribute to his late father, Theodore Ziolkowski.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Ziolkowski wrote and published thirty-five monographs—twenty of them in the last nineteen years of his life, following his retirement from Princeton.”
Eric Ziolkowski pays tribute to his late father, Theodore Ziolkowski.
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Eric Ziolkowski pays tribute to his late father, Theodore Ziolkowski.
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“Not an easy task to master those six thousand languages; how lucky we are that the likes of Coetzee and Dimópulos scour the labyrinth of Babel in search of those magic words.” – J. R. Patterson
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December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“Not an easy task to master those six thousand languages; how lucky we are that the likes of Coetzee and Dimópulos scour the labyrinth of Babel in search of those magic words.” – J. R. Patterson
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The publication this week of Marayrasu: Stories, by Peruvian author Edgardo Rivera Martínez, translated by Amy Olen, marks the first English-language collection of short stories by the Peruvian master. We have an excerpt for you: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/fiction...
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The publication this week of Marayrasu: Stories, by Peruvian author Edgardo Rivera Martínez, translated by Amy Olen, marks the first English-language collection of short stories by the Peruvian master. We have an excerpt for you: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/fiction...
Gabeba Baderoon, a South African writer born after the Group Areas Act, returns to Simon’s Town with her mother, who used to visit the old fishing town before it was declared white.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Gabeba Baderoon, a South African writer born after the Group Areas Act, returns to Simon’s Town with her mother, who used to visit the old fishing town before it was declared white.
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“The call to action that ends the collection—‘Dare to love [the earth] beyond all rational thought’—is radical and radial, as Waberi shows us how to ‘turn into earth both literally and figuratively. ’” – Tiffany Troy
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December 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“The call to action that ends the collection—‘Dare to love [the earth] beyond all rational thought’—is radical and radial, as Waberi shows us how to ‘turn into earth both literally and figuratively. ’” – Tiffany Troy
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Laura Sheahen visits the Markučiai Manor Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, one of a dwindling number of places in eastern Europe where visitors can pay homage to Alexander Pushkin. @lsheahen.bsky.social
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December 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Laura Sheahen visits the Markučiai Manor Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, one of a dwindling number of places in eastern Europe where visitors can pay homage to Alexander Pushkin. @lsheahen.bsky.social
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“Michelle embodies the institutions of late capitalism and the triple devastation they inflict: ecological, bodily, and social.”
Who’s seen Bugonia? Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Julien Jeusette provide a fascinating take on the film here. @myetcetera.bsky.social
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Who’s seen Bugonia? Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Julien Jeusette provide a fascinating take on the film here. @myetcetera.bsky.social
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December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Michelle embodies the institutions of late capitalism and the triple devastation they inflict: ecological, bodily, and social.”
Who’s seen Bugonia? Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Julien Jeusette provide a fascinating take on the film here. @myetcetera.bsky.social
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Who’s seen Bugonia? Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Julien Jeusette provide a fascinating take on the film here. @myetcetera.bsky.social
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“Choukri accompanies his city, creatively observing Tangier’s transformations through narrative.”
Suzan Almahmoud’s conversation with Jonas Elbousty (trans. Mustafa Zewar), is up on the WLT Weekly.
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Suzan Almahmoud’s conversation with Jonas Elbousty (trans. Mustafa Zewar), is up on the WLT Weekly.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Choukri accompanies his city, creatively observing Tangier’s transformations through narrative.”
Suzan Almahmoud’s conversation with Jonas Elbousty (trans. Mustafa Zewar), is up on the WLT Weekly.
worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/intervi...
Suzan Almahmoud’s conversation with Jonas Elbousty (trans. Mustafa Zewar), is up on the WLT Weekly.
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When martial law is declared in Korea in winter 2024 by a president seeking to stage an autocoup, Ha-yun Jung is pushed to revisit her teenage years spent under military rule and confront the damage and despair encountered by her family.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
When martial law is declared in Korea in winter 2024 by a president seeking to stage an autocoup, Ha-yun Jung is pushed to revisit her teenage years spent under military rule and confront the damage and despair encountered by her family.
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worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
Take care of your holiday shopping right here with a gift subscription to World Literature Today. We’re heading into our 100th year of continuous publication next year. We hope you’ll subscribe and celebrate with us!
worldliteraturetoday.org/subscribe
worldliteraturetoday.org/subscribe
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Take care of your holiday shopping right here with a gift subscription to World Literature Today. We’re heading into our 100th year of continuous publication next year. We hope you’ll subscribe and celebrate with us!
worldliteraturetoday.org/subscribe
worldliteraturetoday.org/subscribe
“Who on earth asks you to go on editing a literary magazine? The answer, of course, is nobody.”
Miron Grindea, quoted by Ernst Erich Noth in “Are Editors Curable?,” 75 years ago in our pages.
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Miron Grindea, quoted by Ernst Erich Noth in “Are Editors Curable?,” 75 years ago in our pages.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Who on earth asks you to go on editing a literary magazine? The answer, of course, is nobody.”
Miron Grindea, quoted by Ernst Erich Noth in “Are Editors Curable?,” 75 years ago in our pages.
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Miron Grindea, quoted by Ernst Erich Noth in “Are Editors Curable?,” 75 years ago in our pages.
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“Safe Corridor insists that the child’s voice must be heard, no matter how muffled the voice is, and whether we turn into chalk ourselves as we listen.”
Shahd Alshammari reviews Jan Dost’s first novel to appear in English.
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Shahd Alshammari reviews Jan Dost’s first novel to appear in English.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“Safe Corridor insists that the child’s voice must be heard, no matter how muffled the voice is, and whether we turn into chalk ourselves as we listen.”
Shahd Alshammari reviews Jan Dost’s first novel to appear in English.
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Shahd Alshammari reviews Jan Dost’s first novel to appear in English.
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“Part of the book is a reflection on how past suffering can be expressed: Who holds the pain of the past, and how can it inform our present?”
Julie-Françoise Tolliver reviews Not Even the Sound of a River, Hélène Dorion’s 2024 translated novel.
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Julie-Françoise Tolliver reviews Not Even the Sound of a River, Hélène Dorion’s 2024 translated novel.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Part of the book is a reflection on how past suffering can be expressed: Who holds the pain of the past, and how can it inform our present?”
Julie-Françoise Tolliver reviews Not Even the Sound of a River, Hélène Dorion’s 2024 translated novel.
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Julie-Françoise Tolliver reviews Not Even the Sound of a River, Hélène Dorion’s 2024 translated novel.
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“No one disembarks Small Boat without some culpability.”
Colleen Lutz Clemens reviews this 2025 International Booker Prize shortlisted novel in which Vincent Delecroix uses a first-person narrator as a vehicle to examine the issue of migration.
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Colleen Lutz Clemens reviews this 2025 International Booker Prize shortlisted novel in which Vincent Delecroix uses a first-person narrator as a vehicle to examine the issue of migration.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“No one disembarks Small Boat without some culpability.”
Colleen Lutz Clemens reviews this 2025 International Booker Prize shortlisted novel in which Vincent Delecroix uses a first-person narrator as a vehicle to examine the issue of migration.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
Colleen Lutz Clemens reviews this 2025 International Booker Prize shortlisted novel in which Vincent Delecroix uses a first-person narrator as a vehicle to examine the issue of migration.
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“At forty we hate the jobs
that pay our bills
that get us through the month.
We claim something called dignity
that feels a lot like sadness. . . .”
From “Future Plans,” a poem by Rosa Berbel, translated by Jane Stringham
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that pay our bills
that get us through the month.
We claim something called dignity
that feels a lot like sadness. . . .”
From “Future Plans,” a poem by Rosa Berbel, translated by Jane Stringham
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November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“At forty we hate the jobs
that pay our bills
that get us through the month.
We claim something called dignity
that feels a lot like sadness. . . .”
From “Future Plans,” a poem by Rosa Berbel, translated by Jane Stringham
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that pay our bills
that get us through the month.
We claim something called dignity
that feels a lot like sadness. . . .”
From “Future Plans,” a poem by Rosa Berbel, translated by Jane Stringham
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
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“This naïve girl asked me to review her novel and told me straight up to write a negative piece. You must speak badly of it, she said. You have to say it’s obscene garbage.”
From Clelia Farris’s short story “Es and Is” (trans. Rachel Cordasco).
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From Clelia Farris’s short story “Es and Is” (trans. Rachel Cordasco).
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November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Cold and tender at once, Katabasis may be the most hauntingly humane read of 2025.”
Siyu Cao reviews this novel in which Kuang “rewires the classics.”
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Siyu Cao reviews this novel in which Kuang “rewires the classics.”
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November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“Cold and tender at once, Katabasis may be the most hauntingly humane read of 2025.”
Siyu Cao reviews this novel in which Kuang “rewires the classics.”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
Siyu Cao reviews this novel in which Kuang “rewires the classics.”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...