Come meet Guadalupe Nettel at the Puterbaugh Festival! She’ll be joined by Rosalind Harvey, her principal English-language translator, and others in events across two days, March 3 and 4, at the University of Oklahoma.

“Through deft translation, the narrator is presented as a wry, yet not unsympathetic, observer of human foibles. It is remarkable that the satire comes through so clearly in translation.” – Janet Graham

“These stories of rural southeastern Oklahoma introduce a wide variety of colorful Choctaw characters.” Lee Hester reviews this collection of a dozen tales combining people from history and legend as well as supernatural beings from tribal lore.

“Nasrallah’s verses, imbued with spiritual and political intensity, offer a way to engage with the horrors of war and our complacent global culture.” Nicholas Skaldetvind reviews Ibrahim Nasrallah’s recent chapbook collection.

“Destruction of books is just one strategy that religious or political authorities employ to demoralize citizens whose beliefs have been deemed unacceptable.” Gretchen McCullough reviews Radwa Ashour’s Granada trilogy.

“When I want to recall the fertile fields and lanes of Bucks County, I’ll pick up Saunier’s Wheel and reread it with enjoyable recollection and awareness of how life and the seasons are ever turning.” – Carole Mertz

“Do squirrels’ pupils expand and contract with extremes in emotion, with changes in light?” Enjoy this short creative nonfiction piece, “The Squirrel at the Monastery,” by Lana Spendl, up on the WLT Weekly today.

“Packed with references to Serbian history and pop culture as well as Western art and media (from Shakespeare to Tarantino), The Club of the True Creators shares the whimsy of a Wes Anderson film.” – Michele Levy

Devika Rege’s novel Quarterlife is populated with millennials who are discovering who they are and what they’re for in what is sometimes called “the New India.” Learn more about it and Rege in this short Q&A from our January issue.

“Andor Femin doesn’t use bookmarks, so he would leave books lying about like others leave soiled clothes, in the most indecent positions . . .” – Edina Szvoren (trans. Erika Mihálycsa with Peter Sherwood)

“Desprairies’s language is laced with Faulknerian violence.” Alice-Catherine Carls reviews this “fist-in-your-face cautionary tale.”

“Through all the eccentricities, the surreal landscape, and the postexotic narrative fluttering, Mevlido’s Dreams is profoundly interesting and compelling.” – Daniel P. Haeusser

What do the best stories do? What are Zahid Rafiq’s most essential books? Our January issue features a short Q&A with Rafiq, whose debut story collection was published in December.

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“Flanagan explores the resonances between personal memory and history, posing questions about who gets remembered and who survives death.” Marek Makowski reviews Question 7.

“Han’s work conveys the feeling that small, fragile beings might sustain the world.” In our January issue, Eun-Gwi Chung writes about the secrets of Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s poetic prose.

“The much deeper problem, in my opinion, is the value system of late-stage capitalism, with its deep disdain for culture and the humanities.” Thórdís Helgadóttir is interviewed by Adam Goldwyn in our January issue.

“This travelogue deserves recognition in the canon of global travelogues beside such ancient masterpieces as Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo as well as modern ones like Norman Douglas’s Siren Land.” – Chibueze Darlington Anuonye

WLT's director, RC Davis-Undiano, has a new play that explores the final hours before the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, and the Big Bopper. Purchase advance tickets here for $10 each:

“I’m frightened by the blind terrorism, the fanaticism, the dark wind that blows once again through Europe and not only Europe.” This somber but inventive essay, adapted from an address Edith Bruck gave in 2018, is up on the WLT Weekly.