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Black Mesa, Oklahoma.
Gut-wrenching sentence in the acknowledgements to Irish writer Liadan Ní Chuinn's short story collection, "Every One Still Here."
"There are long pauses when we speak to each other, like a time delay as we reach each other's continents or the time-lag needed to run messages through translators."
—from Liadan Ní Chuinn's short story collection, "Every One Still Here"
does everyone know that “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” has become an elementary school singalong song?
Can't recall the last time I saw a bibliography and index set facing this direction in a book, verso facing the spine.
For context, it's a historical atlas published in 1986. All maps face the same direction. So basically the book is meant to be read at a right angle to how you'd expect to hold it
On severe illness: "He lost fat from places I didn't even know you had it."
—from Liadan Ní Chuinn's short story collection, "Every One Still Here"
WLT is delighted to announce that Ha-yun Jung’s essay “Besieged,” from our Nov. 2025 issue, has been selected for The Best American Essays, coming October 20.
Congrats, Ha-yun! We are proud to have been the first home for this outstanding essay.
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It was a true honor to bring student voices into the scholarly conversation about grades via our "Problems with Grades" panel yesterday at @thegradingconference.com. Their insights were soooo insightful & important. #GradingCon26
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Carolin Görgen (Sorbonne Université/HDEA) est finaliste du Prix de la Recherche SAES/AFEA pour son livre The California Camera Club (The University of Oklahoma Press, 2025) Bravo, Carolin!
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