“You, Bleeding Childhood is a sophisticated, highly self-conscious work of fiction, playfully jamming together elements of autobiography and literary criticism against bizarre flights of imagination.” – Oliver Dixon

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Ethel Rohan recommends 3 Irish books that “have the potential to nurture empathy and infuse our disintegrating existence with the power and medicine of compassion.”

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“I was struck with the theme of solitude in the work.” Ken Hada reviews this collection that “affirms a poetry of place, a tour de force of a poet and place.”

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“There is something strangely satisfying about walking down any street in the city you love and, on seeing any bus, saying to yourself: ‘Yes. I have taken that bus.’”

Taking all the buses of Buenos Aires, Daniel Tunnard makes the city his own.

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“It is cultural practice to be resilient, to choose life, to choose living. And if I’m going to put that in a poem, I ought to live by it.”

Stephanie Pacheco, the US 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate, speaks with Renee H. Shea for the WLT Weekly.

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Garden Inventories “is an endearing and rich collection of essays on the legacies of colonialism, the pangs of the émigré, and the complexities of belonging.” Lara El Mekaui reviews this “unique take on a settlement story.”

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Congratulations to Lucy Coleman and Madeline Jones, winners of WLT’s 2024 Student Translation Prizes! You can read more about them and their winning entries here:

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“I can’t and won’t give up Dostoevsky precisely because Putin doesn’t get to claim him as his own.” Against calls to “cancel” Dostoevsky due to the Russian nationalism espoused in his writings, Ani Kokobobo holds on to a Dostoevsky of the margins.

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“As her theology engages the question of evil, Robinson simultaneously engages scripture’s exact yet mysterious poetry and phraseology, which necessitates an endless hermeneutics of responsibility.” – Arthur Willemse

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Each November, Buenos Aires’s Pride march proceeds down a ten-block stretch that is the “spine of Argentine history.” Liliana Viola writes about the march’s history in our May issue (trans. Kit Maude).
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“Smart, funny, and richly intricate, this narrative of found, lost, and rediscovered love contains multitudes for appreciation by an age-diverse audience of careful readers.” Suzanne Manizza Roszak reviews Gary Soto’s Puppy Love.

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“The Man Died illuminates what has distinguished all Soyinka’s plays and poems: a passionate belief in justice and a moral concern nothing can subvert.”

50 years ago in our pages, Peter Thomas wrote about Wole Soyinka.

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“Frontières ad libitum reminds us of the work yet to be done to reconcile the francophone heritage.” Alice-Catherine Carls reviews this “anthology on the theme of borders.”

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As Mother’s Day in the US approaches, Daria Shchukina celebrates mothers with four books that serve as a reminder of the profound impact of maternal love and the timeless significance of the mother-daughter bond.

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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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