Table of Contents

Bangladesh on the World Stage

• INTERVIEW “Opening Bangladesh to the World: A Conversation with Four Contemporary Writers” by David Shook
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• EXCERPT The World in My Hands by K. Anis Ahmed
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• POETRY Two Poems from the Chakma by Sudipta Chakma Mikado
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• MEMOIR “The Three Stages of Separation” by Maria Chaudhuri
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• INTRO
  Bangladesh on the World Stage: An Introduction
  by David Shook
• FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Beloved Rongomala (an excerpt)
  by Shaheen Akhtar

The Global South

• ESSAY “Breaking Out of the Prison House of Hierarchy” by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
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• ESSAY “A Globalectical Imagination” by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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Essays

• “Anne Frank Abroad: The Emergence of World Atrocity Literature” by Katherine Wilson
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• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Writing in Cuba in the Twenty-first Century
  by Leonardo Padura

Poetry

• Two Poems by Anne Marie Macari
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• “A Soul’s Cartography” by Roberto Castillo Udiarte tr. Anthony Seidman
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• AUDIO WEB EXCLUSIVE
  “Lizard Tail Blues” by Roberto Castillo Udiarte
  by Roberto Castillo Udiarte
• AUDIO WEB EXCLUSIVE
  “Placing Everything on the Line” (Read in Serbian and English)
  by Zvonko Karanović

Fiction

• “Empty But for Darwin” by Tania Hershman
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• “Diamond Anniversary” by Leonardo Padura
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• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  The Pendulous Death of Raimundo Manzanero
  by Leonardo Padura

Interviews

• Writing Cuba from Within: A Conversation with Leonardo Padura
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• “A Quiet Author’s Written Rebellion: An Interview with Ananda Devi” by Dinah Assouline Stillman
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• WEB EXCLUSIVE
  Rebel with a Cause in Serbia: A Conversation with Zvonko Karanović
  by Biljana D. Obradović

Varia

• City Profile: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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• New Books: Put It in a Letter
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• Editor’s Pick: The Sarabande of Sara’s Band
  by Marla Johnson
• What to Read Now: Creative Nonfiction Immersion Classics by Women
  by Lee Gutkind
• Three Minutes on Music from Bangladesh
  by David Henderson

• More Talent Than Success: The Enigma of the Underappreciated Author
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• Editor’s Note
  by Daniel Simon