Literature

The Spring 2020 issue of World Literature Today explored a variety of works in the increasingly popular genre of graphic nonfiction. Now, as the year comes to a close, use of graphic media in literary storytelling is still on the rise. With the increase in graphic novel/nonfiction sales comes an increase in the number of

Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! The pandemic made 2020 a difficult time for acclaimed and emerging poets to share and promote their work. In spite of, or perhaps because of that, it

Survival Strategies for Unsupervised Children Alejandro Puyana Share article Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! “The Hands of Dirty Children” by Alejandro Puyana We’re called the Crazy 9, but there are not always

Margarita Liberaki Three Summers Trans. Karen Van DyckNYRB Three Summers begins with a mystery. Katerina’s absent grandmother is an enigma to her family. Katerina fixates on this character and romanticizes her life, which holds a looming presence over the narrative. The rest of the family sees the grandmother’s departure as a betrayal. The rejection of

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Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! Folktales are powerful because of their purpose: they teach moral through warning. This is what could befall you, they say, this is what happens to badly behaved

I Am Eating America Clean Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! i too do not like a party too childreny I too do not like a party Too childreny Because then I think

Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly moved from bookstores to Zoom. Writers and translators adapted, participating in virtual book tours, online conversations, Facebook live readings, and even virtual literary festivals. We gathered online

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Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! Apologies, but I have to begin my introduction to this list of books by briefly mentioning my own book; shout your aggrievance about this to the heavens

Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! In an unpredictable year, we could count on one thing: Electric Literature readers will always be motivated by stories that put the world into literary context, and

Our strolls through the cemeteries of Berlin, then, are no more funereal and depressing than, say, the performance of Dvořák’s majestic Requiem, which we attended on a Saturday evening in the Berliner Dom (as one in the series of requiems performed annually around Totensonntag.)—Theodore Ziolkowski, “Time Interred: Walks through Berlin’s Cemeteries,” World Literature Today 79,

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Photo by Patrick Robert Doyle / Unsplash Four Scars for a Nameless Town 1I come from a town with no name,no smiles of children under the trees.My town has no parksor roads drawn on any map,or useless books narrating its history.My town is this sand that falls on my feet,this mass of shade I carry

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My Therapist Is a Literal Zombie Julián Herbert Share article Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! “Z” by Julián Herbert, translated by Christina MacSweeney I communicate with my psychoanalyst by phone. My psychoanalyst