Experimental fiction is extra fashionable than you would possibly anticipate. A powerful 37.6% of People desire it to extra conventional varieties—that’s practically 100 million folks for those who scale it to the present grownup inhabitants. And of those that desire their fiction to be formally adventurous, the experiments they most take pleasure in are summary […]

High row (left to proper): Elif Batuman (photograph by Valentyn-Kuzan), Ibrahim Nasrallah, Jesmyn Ward (photograph by Beowulf Sheehan); second row: Mathias Énard (photograph by Marc Melki), Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Robert Olen Butler; third row: Safia Elhillo (photograph by Aris Theotokato), Yoko Tawada (photograph by Nina Subin), Yuri Andrukhovych] World Literature At the moment, the College of […]

Earlier this 12 months, after I despatched a observe of congratulations to creator Sanjena Sathian about her new novel Goddess Advanced, she cheekily responded with, “Our doppelgänger books are doppelgängers of one another.” And it was true. Equally to Goddess Advanced, my new novel The Different Lata options an Indian American girl who receives messages […]

The 2025 Pupil Translation Prize Winners, Fabienne Rink (left) and Fion Tse World Literature Right this moment, the College of Oklahoma’s award-winning journal of worldwide literature and tradition, has introduced the winners of its annual Pupil Translation Prize.  Fabienne Rink and Fion Tse had been lately named the recipients of the sixth annual translation prize for […]

April is Autism Acceptance Month. This is probably not in your calendar, nevertheless it’s particularly necessary within the literary neighborhood. The world didn’t see an autistic creator for a very long time; not as a result of they didn’t exist, however as a result of they lived in a world that believed they couldn’t. Autism […]

Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Eire / Picture by Sean Kuriyan / Unsplash What does it imply to be a Northern Irish author? Many years after the top of the Troubles, it stays a tough query to reply. From The Image of Dorian Grey to Ulysses, Dracula to Ready for Godot, the island of Eire has produced […]

Over the following eight days—between now and Giving Day (April 8)—your reward will assist World Literature At present (WLT) additional its mission: to serve college students and readers all over the place with excellent, well timed protection of world literature and tradition. For 99 years and counting, WLT has been a window to the world, offering […]

March 31, 2025, 2:55pm Spring is soiree season. You heard it right here first. And some current books—like Aria Aber’s novel Good Woman, or Emily Witt’s investigative memoir, Well being and Security—have revived an age-old character about which the soiree orbits. The celebration woman.  I don’t imply the time period diminutively, or as gender-bound. The […]

I used to be lately reminded that My Little Pony — that everlasting franchise — has taken to adapting some much more everlasting literary classics. Beginning with Little Fillies in 2023, they’ve since achieved The Unicorn of Odd and, most lately, The Odyssey (no punny title this time). After I talked about this to my […]

Once I first instructed folks I used to be engaged on a comic book about trauma, I generally obtained humorous appears. I can’t make certain, however I feel the right translation of such a physique language can be one thing like this: “Why are you doing a comic book about that? Aren’t comedian books presupposed […]