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Home  | Book Reviews  | July 2011 


FICTION

  • Little Mother

    Cristina Ali Farah

     
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec. Vol. 1

    Jacques Tardi

     


VERSE

  • Remnants of Another Age

    Nikola Madzirov

     
  • Torn

    Ene Mihkelson

     


MISCELLANEOUS

  • Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence

     

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July/Aug. 2011

Featuring the many voices of Italian Literature including Dacia Maraini, Amara Lakhous, and more, plus a special section on 2011 Newman Prize winner Han Shaogong.


Table of Contents

Voices of Italian Literature

ESSAY "Darkness at the Heart of Recent Italian Literature," Antony Shugaar
by
POETRY Andrea Zanzotto, Fernanda Romagnoli, Luciano Erba, Tiziano Scrap
by
Gianni Celati, Antonella Anedda, Valerio Magrelli, and Alessio Zanelli
by
FICTION "Issa," Amara Lakhous
by
ESSAY "Gianni Celati and "Plain" Storytelling in Contemporary Italy," Jamie Richards
by
INTERVIEW
A Conversation with Dacia Maraini
by Monica Seger
POETRY
"The Glory"
by Maria Luisa Spaziani
POETRY
"Chatting"
by Pier Luigi Bacchini
POETRY
"The Atlantic Day," Patrizia Cavalli
by Patrizia Cavalli
POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Silhouettes
by Ascanio Celestini
POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Three Micropoems from Dimenticatoio
by Leonardo Sinisgalli
POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Three Poems, Julian Stannard
by Julian Stannard
FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
Two Fictions, Ermanno Cavazzoni
by Ermanno Cavazzoni

Newman Prizewinner Han Shaogong

ESSAY "Dropped off the Map: Han Shaogong's Maqiao," Julia Lovell
by
FICTION "Beginning (End)," Han Shaogong
by
SPEECH
The 2011 Newman Prize Lecture: "Pointing to New Clarity with New Perplexity"
by Han Shaogong
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
"Empty Talk: The Roots of Han Shaogong's Writing"
by Mark Leenhouts

In Every Issue

AUTHOR PROFILE: Natacha Appanah
by
LETTERS/EDITOR'S CHOICE
by
OUTPOST: Tunisia
by
What to Read Now: 3 Books to Better Understand Iraq
by Weam Namou
Regional Profile: Liguria, Italy, Gulf of Poets
by

Fiction

Excerpt from The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
by
"Eyes and Ears"
by O Thiam Chin

ESSAYS

"Julia Hartwig's Reality Mysticism ,"Cynthia Haven
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
The Improbable Reality of Europe's Dark Past
by Anna Paterson

EDITOR'S NOTE, July 2011
by Daniel Simon

BOOK REVIEWS


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