Take a whirling tour of Buenos Aires’s secondhand bookstores and meet an array of eccentric reader types with porteño writer Matías Serra Bradford.

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“Every significant figure in Old King does connect in a sense; they all share an anxiety, a sense of loss regarding what’s coming down the road.” John Zerzan reviews a novel with a character reminiscent of John Updike’s Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom.

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The word besa is a small word with large implications in Albanian society, from law to literature to history. Veronica Esposito considers besa in her WLT column, Untranslatable.

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Congratulations to WLT contributor Cristina Rivera Garza, who has won the Pulitzer Prize for her memoir, Liliana's Invincible Summer. Read Ryan Long's review of the book, published at the WLT Weekly, here: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-revi….

“In metafictive fashion, Skármeta uses his own life as subject matter.” Robert Allen Papinchak reviews this collection that transforms “personal experiences into flights of the imagination.”

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“Fan Yusu’s literary journey transcends a mere tale of personal transformation; it represents a challenge to the prevailing norms of society.” Zhang Wenru

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“A simple image, like that of a crutch, becomes synonymous with the thousands of lives shattered, bodies and territories altered by occupation.” Khalid Lyamlahy reviews Olivia Elias’s Chaos, Crossing.

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“It’s apt that Lopate quotes from the nineteenth-century Scottish essayist Alexander Smith, a writer whose easy fluency of style is not unlike his own.” Chris Arthur reviews Phillip Lopate’s “affable” collection of blogs.

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“Recently arrived in Buenos Aires—not a city but a dangerous miracle, buzzing with electricity like a tract of unequal promises—I lived alone. . .” Leila Guerriero (trans. Frances Riddle)

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Isabel Zapata has a fantastic new bilingual collection, A Whale Is a Country (trans. Robin Myers). We spoke with her about these poems and hybrid pieces, the writers currently sustaining her, empathy, and more.

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“Noon does not just contain the incorrigible cruelty of a people; it carries an acute responsibility to let it be known to the world.” Rachita Swain reviews this “slim volume” with both new and old poems.

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We’re proud to announce that M Lynx Qualey , founder of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly , will receive the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature in recognition of advocacy for Arabic-language literature in English.
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“I’m interested in the ways that love can shape and change us even if we don’t end up staying together and having the typical ‘happy ending.’” Wendy Chen, in conversation with Xixuan Collins. Chen’s debut novel, Their Divine Fires, comes out May 7.

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“Utterly Supernova is fed up, the same feeling she had when she was buckling on her helmet.”

Take a ride through Buenos Aires in this excerpt (trans. Kit Maude) from Ana Ojeda’s novel Vikinga Bonsái.

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“Today I watch football and see it more as a chessboard, an arena for class warfare, arithmetic, the golden ratio, immigration, xenophobia, skill, and, every now and again, the odd line of poetry uttered by a manager.” – Oliverio Coelho

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In the May issue’s featured review, Daniel Haeusser finds in Your Absence Is Darkness an “intricate and lyrical novel” that “fans of philosophic or metaphysical literature should experience.”

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“‘History’s purity’ is often a sword wielded against those beyond the pale of community, a shibboleth designed to trip up the tongue of the infidel.” Read Daniel Simon’s editor’s note in our May issue.

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“If you pass, know that you will have no say
about what happens.

Some of our people will hate you as they hate themselves. . . .”

From “Rite of Baptism,” one of three poems by Pádraig Ó Tuama in our May issue.
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“In Argentina, all roads lead—quite literally—to Buenos Aires.” Guest editor Kit Maude introduces our special section, in which 9 writers walk and bike the city’s streets, ride its buses, and reflect on football, the Pride march, and bookstores.

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