Coming in the January Issue of WLT

A cover feature on 2014 Neustadt Prize winner Mia Couto (Mozambique) 

and 

A special section on flash nonfiction featuring Brian Doyle, Josey Foo, Vikram Kapur, Lia Purpura, and Dmitry Samarov 

plus

• “An Ars Poetica?” by Sergio Pitol (Mexico)
• Elif Shafak (Turkey) on storytelling, fake worlds, and the Internet
• Zsolt Láng’s (Hungary) essay “Ping-pong; or, Writing Together”
• Lane Ashfeldt interviews Hassan Blasim (Iraq/Finland)
• Poems by John Kinsella (Australia), Circe Maia (Uruguay), and Saleem Peeradina (India/US)
• A suite of contemporary Ethiopian poetry featuring Abebaw Melaku, Misrak Terefe, Mihret Kebede, compiled by Eric Ellingsen, plus “12 Thoughts for Aspiring Do-It-Yourself Publishers” by David Shook
• Reading recommendations from Iceland by Alda Sigmundsdóttir
• Short fiction by Murzban Shroff (India)
• J. Madison Davis on the Coen brothers
• Visits to Granada, Spain, and Santorini, Greece
• and New books and book reviews spanning the globe