Table of Contents

Varia

• City Profile: World Lit in the “City of the Big Shoulders”
  by
• New Books: Mediterranean Noir
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• Outpost: Beyoğlu, Turkey
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• Editor’s Pick: Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
  by Michelle Johnson
• What to Read Now: Human Trafficking
  by Suzette R. Grillot
• World Music: Seattle Experimental Opera’s Artistic Insurrection
  by Michael Lee

• The Adventure of Sir Arthur’s Home: Development, Preservation, Literary Snobbery, and the World’s Most Famous Detective
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• Editor’s Note
  by Daniel Simon

Four-Legged Fictions

• EXCERPT “Mexico City” by Jean Rolin
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• “Memory of Safo” by Esther Tusquets
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• POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
  On Hammock Hill
  by Mark Tredinnick
• POETRY
  Two Poems by Jacques Roubaud
  by Jacques Roubaud

Interviews

• “Manichean Taxis and Murderous Readers: A Conversation with Rawi Hage” by Ray Taras
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Poetry

• Three Ghazals by Shakeel Badayuni, Sha’ir Lakhnavi, and Zack Rogow
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• “Frédéric Chopin Tweets from the Edinburgh Hogmanay Party” by Ron Butlin
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• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Ghazal
  by Shakeel Badayuni
• A Postponed Poem for New York
  by Amjad Nasser

Essays

• “The Invisible City” by Alberto Chimal
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• “Is American Literature Parochial?” by Ilan Stavans
  by Ilan Stavans

Fiction

• “Le Suicide de Monsieur F” by Farzad Salamifar
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• The Cities of the Ordered Chain
  by Alberto Chimal