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Home | Magazine  | September 2016  |  Reading Lists
Reading Lists

Selected Works by Alain Mabanckou

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Three books by Alain Mabanckou

Verse 

Au jour le jour (1993)

L’usure des lendemains (1995)

La Légende de l’errance (1995)

Les arbres aussi versent des larmes (1997)

Quand le coq annoncera l’aube d’un autre jour (1999)

Tant que les arbres s’enracineront dans la terre (2004)

 

Novels 

Bleu Blanc Rouge (1998; Eng. Blue White Red, 2013)

L’enterrement de ma mère (2000)

Et Dieu seul sait comment je dors (2001)

Les petits-fils nègres de Vercingétorix (2002)

African psycho (2003; Eng. 2007)

Verre cassé (2005; Eng. Broken Glass, 2000)

Mémoires de porc-épic (2006; Eng. Memoirs of a Porcupine, 2011) 

Black Bazar (2009; Eng. Black Bazaar, 2012)

Demain j’aurai vingt ans (2010; Eng. Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty, 2013)

Tais-toi et meurs (2012)

Lumières de Pointe-Noire (2013; Eng. The Lights of Pointe-Noire, 2015)

Petit Piment (2015)

 

Nonfiction

Lettre à Jimmy (2007; Eng. Letter to Jimmy, 2014)

L’Europe depuis l’Afrique (2009)

Écrivain et oiseau migrateur (2011)

Le sanglot de l’homme noir (2012)

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BACK ISSUE

September 2016

Featuring Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, Puterbaugh Fellow Alain Mabanckou, and more.


Table of Contents

Editor’s Note
by Daniel Simon

In Every Issue

City Profile
Literary Detroit: A Marriage of Poetry and Pragmatism
by Mickey Lyons
What to Read Now
Four Books from Malaysia
by Dipika Mukherjee
Translator’s Note
Translating Deceptive Simplicity in Poetry
by Paul Scott Derrick
Global Frequency
A Mediterranean Blend
by Rob Vollmar
Editor’s Pick
The Bible for Unbelievers: The Beginning: Genesis by Guus Kuijer
by Rob Vollmar
International Crime & Mystery
Dinner with Dick Francis
by J. Madison Davis
Outpost
Illiterati Café and Bookstore
by David Joshua Jennings

INTERVIEWS

Urban Reality and Classical Antiquity: A Conversation with Luis Alberto de Cuenca
by Diego Doncel
“Every Poet Has to Be Lonely”: A Conversation with Tomasz Różycki and His Translators
by Major Jackson & Mira Rosenthal
New Voices in Vietnamese American Literature: A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Lam, and Aimee Phan
by Aimee Phan

Poetry

Night Is Coming On
by Luis Alberto de Cuenca
Two Poems
by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza
Wooden Diamond Rocket
by Lee Young-Kwang
Four Poems
by Tomasz Różycki
PREMIUM
Two Poems
by Ana Blandiana

Fiction

The Stone Wall
by Lee Upton
PREMIUM
A Creature of Habit
by Rumena Bužarovska

ESSAYS

PUTERBAUGH ESSAY SERIES
The Scold’s Bridle
by Dubravka Ugrešić

Gulf Lit

INTRO
10 Writers from Cuba, Mexico, and the US South: An Ofrenda to Sacred Waters
by Dolores Flores-Silva
POETRY
Houses
by Jesús J. Barquet
POETRY
Racial Cleansing
by Charo Guerra
AUDIO POETRY
Two Trilingual Poems
by Feliciano Sánchez Chan
EXCERPT
Savage Conversations (an excerpt)
by LeAnne Howe
POETRY
Three Poems
by Jay Wright
INTERVIEW PREMIUM
Son Jarocho, Rock and Roll, and Bridges between Cultures: A Conversation with Agustín del Moral Tejeda
by Dolores Flores-Silva
EXCERPT
Tell Me What’s Happening to Me (an excerpt)
by Agustín del Moral Tejeda
POETRY
Negro Spiritual
by Luis Lorente
POETRY
Death by Water Suite
by Brenda Marie Osbey
EXCERPT
Elevation of a Port (an excerpt)
by José Luis Rivas
FICTION
Why La Luna Did It / The Moon Mother
by Bárbara Renaud González

Alain Mabanckou: The 2016 Puterbaugh Fellow

INTERVIEW
How to Become Globalized Without Losing Your Mind: A Conversation with Alain Mabanckou
by Rokiatou Soumaré
POETRY
As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth
by Alain Mabanckou
ESSAY
The World of Alain Mabanckou
by Dominic Thomas
READING LIST
Selected Works by Alain Mabanckou
by WLT
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Who Me, Postcolonial? Alain Mabanckou’s Transatlantic Exchange with James Baldwin
by Lydie Moudileno
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
“The Song of a Migrating Bird”: For a World Literature in French
by Alain Mabanckou

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