Jonas Elbousty

Jan 23, 2025 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Rita Chang-Eppig |Ming Di |Susan Blumberg-Kason |Jonas Elbousty

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Regarded as one of the most original voices of the new Latin American poetry, Mario Meléndez (b. 1971) is a Chilean poet born in Linares. Among his books are Vuelo subterráneo, El circo de papel, La muerte tiene los días contados, Esperando a Perec, Jardín de escombros, and El mago de la soledad. Selections of poetry have been translated into more than fifteen languages.

Jan 14, 2025 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Susan Blumberg-Kason |Rita Chang-Eppig |Jonas Elbousty |Michelle Johnson

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. Erika Swyler is the best-selling author of the critically acclaimed novels Light from Other Stars and The Book of Speculation. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Catapult, Literary Hub, VIDA, the New York Times, and elsewhere. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she seeks to make work that is in dialogue with the arts, sciences, and history.

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.