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WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOVEMBER 2026 PREVIEW

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WORLD LITERATURE TODAY: The latest issue features ‘Reading in Tasmania’. The 100th year of continuous publication gifts readers all their favorite genres—a profusion of essays, poetry, book reviews, creative nonfiction, fiction, interviews, a booklist for Trans Awareness Month, a postcard from Colombia, and more. Emma Wilkins’s essay on Tasmanian literature provides the cover feature, and translated work from China, Egypt, Mexico, Quebec, and Russia enlivens the issue. Reviews of new books by Solvej Balle, Emmanuel Carrère, Victoria Chang, Edwidge Danticat, Jon Fosse, and dozens more round out the year with essential reading-list titles.

50 Years Ago in These Pages

by The Editors of WLT

The Ancient Nutrients Sustaining Cali, Colombia

by Erik Gleibermann

A Field Guide to Global Trans Literature: 7 Books for Trans Awareness Month

by Alton Melvar M. Dapanas

72 Years Ago Not in These Pages

by Rafael Heliodoro Valle

“The Garden of My Soul”: Edith Wharton’s Living Legacy in France

by Laura Sheahen

Why I Am Not an Indian English Writer

An Essay by Aruni Kashyap

Introduction: Eyes of the Pen, Voices of the Camera

by Yousef Khanfar

Writing on War’s Edge

by Yousri Alghoul

They Call It Displacement—In Reality, It’s Hell (This Is My Story)

by Nour Abo-Rokb

Ghost

by Basem Nabres

Ringtones of My Mobile Phone

by Omar Hammash

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WORLD LITERATURE TODAY – JULY 2025 PREVIEW

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WORLD LITERATURE TODAY (June 26, 2025): The latest issue features Writing with Light – The 2025 Puterbaugh Lecture, by Guadalupe Nettel

Gaza Voices

Introduction: Eyes of the Pen, Voices of the Cameraby Yousef Khanfar

Writing on War’s Edgeby Yousri Alghoul

They Call It Displacement—In Reality, It’s Hell (This Is My Story)by Nour Abo-Rokb

This Is What I Haveby Shrouq Mohammed Doghmosh

Nun and War (She and War)by Kifah Salama Al-Ghseen

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Ghost by Basem Nabres

Ringtones of My Mobile Phoneby Omar Hammash

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Books: World Literature Today – November 2023

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World Literature Today (October 29, 2023) – The latest issue features 4 Artists of Iraqi Descent – Achieving recognition in the Diaspora; Cornel West’s prophetic witness; Traveling Mexico City’s Body by Metro; The Cheikh Bookstore – One of the Few Still Standing in Algeria, and more…

Artists of Iraqi Descent Celebrate Roots and Global Belonging

by Shakir Mustafa

Traveling Mexico City’s Body by Metro

by Erik Gleibermann

The Cheikh Bookstore: One of Few Still Standing in Algeria

by Saliha Haddad

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Covers: World Literature Today – Nov/Dec 2022

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November/December2022

In a wide-ranging conversation that headlines World Literature Today’s November issue, we celebrate Ada Limón being named the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

Singing Back to the World: A Conversation with US Poet Laureate Ada Limón

by Chard deNiord

With your latest passport to great reading, the editors are also excited to launch an ambitious new editorial initiative to offer a greater number of shorter pieces to help further diversify the magazine’s coverage and facilitate reader engagement from a wider variety of cultural angles. Through literature, music, film, food, and art, WLT is finding more ways than ever to connect you to the global cultural landscape of the 21st century.

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Covers: World Literature Today – May/June 2022

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World Literature Today Magazine to Launch Art-Inspired 400th Issue

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The May/June issue of World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will celebrate the magazine’s 400th issue. The edition, which will feature writers and visual artists, will be launched in Oklahoma City’s Paseo Arts District’s Studio Six, from 6-8 p.m., Friday, May 6.

The cover feature, “Muses,” showcases the work of writers, visual artists and their inspirations. The issue will contain essays, poems and creative nonfiction inspired by Rembrandt, Wassily Kandinsky, Andrew Wyeth, David Hockney, André Leon Talley, French artist Ghislaine Lejard, American artist Todd Anderson as well as Hong Kong street artists, plus an interview with novelist, journalist and artist Amitava Kumar, who is based in both India and the United States.

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