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Photos by Laura HernandezNestled on a quiet street in the Cordón neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay, is Escaramuza, a combination bookstore, café, and cultural events center. With ornate tile floors,…
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I THINK I WILL FOREVER be just a little bit in love with young adult (YA) literature, no matter how old I get. While I’m not terribly discriminatory about genres, I do have steadfast…
Photos by Laura Hernandez. Celebrating its eleventh year, the Brooklyn Book Festival hosts writers from around the world and highlights the literary landscape in a two-day book extravaganza. The festi…
Photos by Laura Hernandez Located in bustling Johannesburg, South Africa, the Apartheid Museum traces segregation along with the diversity of its people. As they enter, visitors experience a split en…- August 28, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews The new issue of Poetry International is now available. The double issue features poems by current Neustadt nominee Carolyn Forché; Neustadt laureates Tomas Tranströmer a…
August 21, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte…- August 14, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Mark your calendars for the National Book Festival held in Washington D.C., which is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. The theme for this year is a quote from Thomas J…
- August 7, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Time magazine just released its list of the best books published in 2015 so far. Rebecca L. Walkowitz’s latest book is now available. Born Translated: The Co…
July 31, 2015Laila Lalami. Her newest novel The Moor's Account has been longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. News, Reviews, and Interviews The Man Booker Prize announced its 2015 longlist th…
July 24, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews The Brooklyn Small Press Flea Market will happen on Saturday, August 1, in front of the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Check out all the event details here.…- July 17, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews A new literary discovery featuring Charles Dickens’s annotations in his literary magazine reveals the identity of many Victorian authors who had been publishing anonymous…
July 10, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Buzzfeed’s list of Asian-American writers features 2016 Neustadt jurors Wang Ping and Porochista Khakpour. Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård was recently featured on an…
July 3, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews National Book Award winner and Puterbaugh Fellow Sherman Alexie will publish his first picture book in May 2016. WLT featured Alexie on the cover of the July 201…- June 26, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Time magazine featured a debate sure to spark interest in readers. The article asked whether or not it was acceptable to write in books as part of interacting wi…
- June 19, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Israeli writer Etgar Keret was interviewed recently on NPR. Keret discussed how he learned storytelling and survival from his father who survived the Holocaust.…
- June 12, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed the poet laureate of the United States this week. Herrera is the first Latino poet to receive this honor. Herrera also…
- June 5, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews We Need Diverse Books has stirred up debate on featuring more minorities in literature, spec…
May 29, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature finalists were announced tonight! Congrats to Can Xue, Caryl Churchill, Carolyn Forché, Aminatta Forna, Ann-Marie Mac…
May 22, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews The jury for the 2016 Neustadt Prize has been announced! Discover the panel of nine writers…
May 15, 20152013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste. Photo by Shevaun Williams.…- May 8, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is serving as the co-curator for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, a weeklong literature event that happened this week in Ne…
May 1, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Scholar and t…
April 24, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2015 Pulitzer Book Prizes were announced this week. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr received the Pulitzer for fiction. A list of other winners i…
April 17, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Nobel laureate Günter Grass passed away in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of eighty-seven. We have a tribute to Grass written by longtime WLTcontributor Theodore Zi…
April 10, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews Some controversy surrounded the publication announcement of Harper Lee’s new work, Go Set A Watchman, and some wondered if she was manipulated into signing a co…
