November 2011

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Volume 85 No. 6 November 2011

In the November 2011 issue of WLT, a special section devoted to Post-Soviet Literature features recent work from Russia and other former republics, twenty years after the collapse of the regime. Readers are also invited to discover the "metaphysical fantasias" of Serbian writer Zoran Živković in addition to short fiction by Mario Bellatin (Mexico), new poems by Alistair Noon (UK/Germany), and an interview with Samia Mehrez (Egypt).

Post-Soviet Literature: Twenty Years After the Fall

ESSAY Censorship in Russia: Old and New Faces
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FICTION "Petrov and Markov," Oleg Woolf
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ESSAY "Re-Visioning the Past: Russian Literary Classics in Film," Catharine Nepomnyashchy
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POETRY "The Rock or, A Third Anecdote about Wallace Stevens," Grigory Kruzhkov
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EXCERPT The Button, Iren Rozdobudko
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INTRO
Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Russian and East European Literature Today

by Emily D. Johnson
Booklist WEB EXCLUSIVE WLT's Post-Soviet Reading List
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ESSAY
"Poetry in the Cloud: An Experiment, Results, and n+1 Hypotheses"

by Kevin M. F. Platt
VIDEO WEB EXCLUSIVE
Multimedia poetry from Orbita 4

by Orbita, Semyon Khanin & Sergej Timofejev
POETRY
a poem about Lillebror and Karlsson

by Igor Belov
"Untitled"

by Semyon Khanin
"Untitled"

by Artur Punte
Glory to Heroes

by Feodor Swarovski
Truths

by Sergej Timofejev
Artemis

by Viktor Ivaniv
ship of goblins

by Ksenia Shcherbino

Zoran Živković

"Rendezvous in Front of the House," Zoran Živković
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"The Metaphysical Fantasias of Zoran Živković," Michael Morrison
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Zoran Živković: A Biographical Sketch
by Michael A. Morrison
FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
"The Teashop"

by Zoran Živković
INTERVIEW WEB EXCLUSIVE
Fantastika and the Literature of Serbia: A Conversation with Zoran Živković

by Michael A. Morrison
WEB EXCLUSIVE
A Bibliography of the Works of Zoran Živković

by Zoran Živković

Interviews

"Literary Cairo, A Conversation with Samia Mehrez," Michelle Johnson
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WEB EXCLUSIVE
"My Life as Cinema: A Conversation with Samuel Shimon"

by Kaitlin Hawkins

Fiction

"Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction," Mario Bellatin
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WEB EXCLUSIVE
"The Demon of Hunger"

by Tania Malyarchuk

Poetry

Two Poems, Alistair Noon
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WEB EXCLUSIVE
Three Poems

by Askold Bazhanov

Varia

AUTHOR PROFILE: Zoe Whittall
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CITY PROFILE: Yerevan, Armenia
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INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY: Meet "Bo from Ro": Building Romanian Crime Writing, J. Madison Davis
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OUTPOST: Los Angeles
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WHAT TO READ NOW: Zimbabwe
by Brian Chikwava