
19/09/2023
The September 2023 issue of World Literature Today, California.
By Veronica Esposito, contributor to The Guardian, Xtra Magazine, and San Francisco NPR affiliate KQED, judge for the 2022 National Book Award
What is sehnsucht, and why hasn’t it taken root in US culture? Veronica Esposito explores the meaning of the word and its use across international culture in her continuing column on untranslatable words.