In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

Daniel Simon
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Creative Nonfiction

Besieged

Ha-yun Jung
pp. 5-8
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Just Now

Gabeba Baderoon
pp. 14-15
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Interviews

“To Be Free You Need a Lot of Rules”: 5 Questions for Chiara Valerio

Michelle Johnson, Chiara Valerio
p. 9
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Essays

Not Muted, Not Silent: The Work of Translation in Poetry and the Courtroom

Carol Rose Little
pp. 10-12
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Moving House

J. R. Patterson
p. 16
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Poetry

[And Mama told me]

Mónica Ojeda, Kymm Coveney
p. 13
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Future Plans

Rosa Berbel, Jane Stringham
p. 17
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Laws Are Mutating . . .

Vanechka, Yana Kane, Bruce Esrig
p. 19
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Two Poems from South Africa

Sudeep Sen
p. 22
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From Translation’s Edges

Talking with GPT-5 about The Inferno

Veronica Esposito
pp. 20-21
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Cover Feature

World Lit in the Age of AI

On Finding Language for What It Means to Be Alive Today Notes on A Living Poem at MoMA

Sasha Stiles
pp. 24-26
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Notes on AI: The Master’s Tool

D. P. Snyder
pp. 26-31
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“Our Minds Are Porous and Forgetfulness Seeps In”: A Conversation on Translation and AI with Ilan Stavans

Susan Smith Nash, Ilan Stavans
pp. 32-36
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Remembering Technology

Aoko Matsuda, Polly Barton
pp. 37-38
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Are Translators Necessary? A Case Against AI

Kenneth Kronenberg
pp. 39-43
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Divertimento: Artificial Nonsense

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, D. P. Snyder
pp. 44-45
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AI; or, What Professors Can Learn from Chess

Iheoma Nwachukwu
pp. 46-47
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Stroma

Yana Kane
pp. 48-53
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Book in Review

Things That Disappear by Jenny Erpenbeck (review)

Necia Chronister
p. 55
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The Cartographer of Absences: A Novel by Mia Couto (review)

Elaine Margolin
p. 56
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Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada (review)

Kevin Canfield
pp. 56-57
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Dealing with the Dead by Alain Mabanckou (review)

Daniel Bokemper
pp. 57-58
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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o (review)

Dike Okoro
p. 58
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Speaking in Tongues by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos (review)

J. R. Patterson
p. 59
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Katabasis: A Novel by R. F. Kuang (review)

Siyu Cao
p. 60
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Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (review)

Colleen Lutz Clemens
pp. 60-61
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When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi (review)

Tiffany Troy
pp. 61-62
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Safe Corridor by Jan Dost (review)

Shahd Alshammari
p. 62
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Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyer (review)

Rachita Swain
pp. 62-63
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Women in Chinatown (Tangrenjie shang de nürenmen) by Gu Yan (review)

Laura Xie
pp. 63-64
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The Dance and the Fire: A Novel by Daniel Saldaña París (review)

Molly MacVeagh
p. 64
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Longings: Contemporary Fiction by Vietnamese Women Writers by Quan Manh Ha (review)

Josie Miller
pp. 64-65
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All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari (review)

Nicole Yurcaba
pp. 65-66
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Empty Pool by Isabel Zapata (review)

Arthur Malcolm Dixon
p. 66
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Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir by Suzanne Jill Levine (review)

George Henson
p. 67
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Les tigres ne mangent pas les étoiles by Cécile Oumhani (review)

Alice-Catherine Carls
p. 68
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Les guerriers de l’hiver by Olivier Norek (review)

Edward Ousselin
pp. 68-69
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Hearts in Motion, Hearts in Place: The Quest for Querencias on Turtle Island and Abya Yala by Enrique R. Lamadrid (review)

Francisco A. Lomelí
pp. 69-70
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Palestine Wail by Yahia Lababidi (review)

Arthur Willemse
p. 70
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Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović (review)

Michele Levy
pp. 70-71
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The Cambridge History of the British Essay ed. by Denise Gigante & Jason Childs (review)

Chris Arthur
pp. 71-72
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Todo lo que amamos y dejamos atrás by Elisa De Gortari (review)

Kevin M. Anzzolin
p. 73
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Young Woman with a Cane: Poems by Reginald Gibbons (review)

Beth Brown Preston
pp. 73-74
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The Antidote by Karen Russell (review)

Damjana Mraović-O’Hare
pp. 74-75
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Visions for the Night by Ken Hada (review)

Gianna Loboda
p. 75
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Perfect Happiness by You-Jeong Jeong (review)

Rachel S. Cordasco
p. 76
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Crocodiles at Night by Gisela Heffes (review)

Andrea Avey
p. 77
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Heartcore by Štěpánka Jislová (review)

Rita D. Jacobs
pp. 77-78
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Désirée Congo by Évelyne Trouillot (review)

Robyn Cope
p. 78
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The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media by Matthew Kilbane (review)

Nicholas Skaldetvind
pp. 78-79
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What to Read Now

The Art of Healing Fiction

T. A. Morton
pp. 18-19
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Outpost

In the Baltics, a Conflicted Homage to Russia’s Great Poet: The Markučiai Manor Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania

Laura Sheahen
p. 80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a973494
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