Current content from the pages of the magazine can be found on the WLT websiteand on Project Muse. WLT has received two dozen publishing awards in the past twenty years, including the Phoenix Award for Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 2002.

Now in its tenth decade of continuous publication, WLT has been recognized by the Nobel Prize committee as one of the 'best edited and most informative literary publications' in the world, and was recently called 'an excellent source of writings from around the globe by authors who write as if their lives depend on it' (Utne Reader, 2005). Spanning the globe, WLT features lively essays, original poetry and fiction, coverage of transnational issues and trends, author profiles and interviews, book reviews, travel writing, and coverage of the other arts, culture, and politics as they intersect with literature. The psychological highs and lows that unfold will bring readers deep into the complex lives of these thrilling devices and the power dynamics that users must negotiate.World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma's bimonthly magazine of international literature and culture, opens a window to the world in every issue. It is an epic thought experiment into how these anonymous actors change peoples’ concept of self-identity. Schweblin’s second novel, Little Eyes, out now in paperback, imagines a reality in which people keep kentuki small, animal-shaped devices with cameras for eyes, controlled by an unknown. The novel is an exploration of the artificial boundaries we perceive when we interact virtually. As kentuki users attempt to establish their ideal dynamic, whether it’s as a voyeur, a tourist in another lifestyle, a companion, a caretaker, or a star of their own reality show, the relationships devolve into obsession and emotional turmoil when issues of privacy and freedom inevitably surface. Schweblin’s vignettes of different pairs of kentuki users around the globe explore the full spectrum of demented outcomes when this technology is left unregulated. The arrival of kentukis establishes a type of hybrid being that is both gadget and human, intelligent and sentient, but with limited autonomy and ability to communicate.

Across languages and regions, kentuki “keepers” and “dwellers” are randomly connected when the device starts up for the first time, and people soon realize that this unique relationship is not easily navigated.

Kentukis are small stuffed animals on wheels, like a furry robot pet-except behind their little eyes are live-streaming webcams controlled by another person connected to the device. In Samanta Schweblin’s novel Little Eyes, people around the world are delighted by a new technology bringing anonymous online relationships to a new level.

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