Itoro Bassey

Jan 7, 2025 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Susan Blumberg-Kason |Jonas Elbousty

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. I met the author Jean Hoffmann Lewanda for lunch this past November in New Jersey, not too far from her home in suburban Philadelphia. Jean is the author of a new book, Shalama: My 96 Seasons in China (Earnshaw, 2024), the story of her mother’s childhood in Harbin, China, and young adult years in Shanghai.

Nov 12, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Jonas Elbousty |Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Michelle Johnson

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. In June 2024 Pantheon published Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour’s latest novel (see WLT, Sept. 2024, 73). The novel satirizes social media culture and turns the lives of four Iranian American influencer sisters upside down as they are faced with the pandemic and their own secrets and shortcomings, beneath the perfect avatars they had hoped to display for reality audiences to admire.

Oct 17, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Karlos Hill |Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Jonas Elbousty

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Roger Allen was the first person to obtain a doctorate in modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford. After obtaining his DPhil, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania till his retirement, in June 2011, from his position as the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Sep 25, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Sandra Guzman |Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. In September, the University of Georgia Press published Japa and Other Stories, Iheoma Nwachukwu’s debut collection of short fiction. In these eight stories, Nigerian immigrants trek through a desert, become temporary Mormons, and sneak through Russia as they seek new life in strange territories. The collection won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Sep 24, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Sangamithra Iyer

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. The last time I saw Giannina Braschi was a year ago at the 92NY in New York City. The auditorium was packed—800-plus New Yorkers convening to celebrate the launch of my monumental Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Latine Women. Braschi, one of the 140 brilliant writers featured in the anthology, read an excerpt of her new book, Putinoika (FlowerSong Press, 2024), and introduced the world to Putinas.