Robert Seethaler answers 9 questions in our March issue, talking about his novel The Café with No Name, which spent 40 weeks on the Spiegel best-seller list, Vienna in the 1960s, dealing with change, and more. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/9-q…

Karlos K. Hill and Marcus Anthony Hunter discuss radical reparations and why we need them if we are going to authentically heal the American soul. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/rep…

“it’s 1 a.m. in los angeles & i am trying to finish this after putting off all day first to meet mo at the cafe & eat toasts thick with ricotta & lemon . . .” From “First Warm Sunday of the Year,” by Safia Elhillo worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/fir…

“With Guerilla Blooms, Chilean poet Daniela Catrileo, bilingual in Spanish and Mapudungun, creates a poetics of resistance in the language of the Mapuche, the indigenous people of Chile.” – Susan Smith Nash worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/gue…

A zoom event featuring Angelina Muñiz-Huberman and her translator, D. P. Snyder, will take place at noon CDT on March 26, co-sponsored by the University of Oklahoma’s Schusterman Center for Judaic & Israel Studies and WLT. Join us! worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/news-and-…

“Schwartz’s book is one of the most balanced, comprehensive, and fact-driven narratives about the Israel-Palestine conflict to date.” Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews Ghosts of a Holy War. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/gho…

“This list is for those who want to dive into some new anti-utopias as envisioned by authors from all around the globe.” Lala Mammadova provides 10 international dystopian novels about authoritarian regimes. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lists…

“Pol Guasch’s debut novel is lyrical, carnal, and, at times, delicate.” James Fawcett reviews “an imaginative novel that provides a sketch of dystopia through letters, photographs, tally marks, and other assorted writings.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/nap…

“What we have are echoes of the poet.” Susan Smith Nash interviews Ilan Stavans about his new book of poems, which captures, from original Nahuatl songs, the voice of Aztec warrior, king, poet, and philosopher Nezahualcóyotl. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/interview…

Andrew Lam’s childhood ended, more or less, on the beach of Vung Tau, Vietnam, “where magic and prayers failed.” In this lyric essay from our March issue, he returns to the scene as a double refugee—in person and in memory. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/onc…

Ananda Devi’s “question about how to balance living in a happy cocoon and letting the tragedy of the world devour us has an urgency that makes La nuit s’ajoute à la nuit a must-read book for our troubled times.” – Alice-Catherine Carls worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/la-…

In this conversation with Karlos K. Hill about Black Santa Monica, Leana Brunson-McClain reflects on the vibrant community that was and details her efforts to preserve its fading memory. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/his…

What do the poets Lea Goldberg, Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā, and Almog Behar have in common? Come find out on 4/2/25 when Daniel Simon will speak on the multilingual literature of Israel in Zarrow Hall 145. You can join by Zoom. Link in article here: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/news-and-…

“For as much as the war has militarized the Ukrainian language, peace will hopefully demilitarize it . . .’” Nicole Yurcaba reviews Ostap Slyvynsky’s “haunting, necessary, and beautiful contribution to the Ukrainian literary canon.” worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-revi…

Twenty-five years ago in WLT’s pages, Sven H. Rossel wrote about Neustadt Prize winner Tomas Tranströmer as translator. Enjoy this look back in our March issue. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/25-…

“In this color-drenched graphic memoir reminiscent of the dreaminess of Chagall, Jesse Lee Kercheval has moved the genre to a new level.” Rita D. Jacobs reviews this “ achingly beautiful graphic memoir.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/fre…

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“In their oblique approach, the poems demonstrate how war seeps into all aspects of life, far beyond the front lines.” Uilleam Blacker reviews Ukrainian poet Yuliya Musakovska’s sixth collection. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/god…

“Making peace with Israel as her home may be too much to ask, but in her moving memoir, a truce within her family and herself seems within Lang’s reach.” Claire Polders reviews Jennifer Lang’s second memoir. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/lan…

Today is OU’s Giving Day, and your gift to us, of any amount, will help WLT further our mission of serving readers everywhere with outstanding coverage of world lit and culture. All details are here (and check out the sweet incentives): worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/news-and-… #OUGivingDay