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Home  | Book Reviews  | November 2011 


FICTION

  • The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City

    Samia Mehrez, ed.

     
  • L'Evaporation de l'oncle
    Christine Montalbetti

     
  • The Ghostwriter and The Five Wonders of the Danube

    Zoran Živković. Alice Copple-Tošić, tr.

     


VERSE

  • Southern Barbarians and The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009
    John Mateer

     
  • Doors in a Meadow

    Bratislav R. Milanović. Biljana D. Obradović, tr.

     
  • Slow Dance
    Saleem Peeradina

     
  • Flash Cards

    Yu Jian. Wang Ping & Ron Padgett, tr.

     


MISCELLANEOUS

  • A mai történelmi regény
    Ágnes Heller

     

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BACK ISSUE

Nov. 2011

In this issue of WLT, a special section devoted to Post-Soviet Literature features recent work from Russia and other former republics, twenty years after the collapse of the regime.


Table of Contents

Post-Soviet Literature: Twenty Years After the Fall

ESSAY Censorship in Russia: Old and New Faces
by
FICTION "Petrov and Markov," Oleg Woolf
by
ESSAY "Re-Visioning the Past: Russian Literary Classics in Film," Catharine Nepomnyashchy
by
POETRY "The Rock or, A Third Anecdote about Wallace Stevens," Grigory Kruzhkov
by
EXCERPT The Button, Iren Rozdobudko
by
INTRO
Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Russian and East European Literature Today
by Emily D. Johnson
READING LIST WEB EXCLUSIVE WLT's Post-Soviet Reading List
by
ESSAY
"Poetry in the Cloud: An Experiment, Results, and n+1 Hypotheses"
by Kevin M. F. Platt
VIDEO WEB EXCLUSIVE
Multimedia poetry from Orbita 4
by Orbita, Semyon Khanin & Sergej Timofejev
POETRY
a poem about Lillebror and Karlsson
by Igor Belov
"Untitled"
by Semyon Khanin
"Untitled"
by Artur Punte
Glory to Heroes
by Feodor Swarovski
Truths
by Sergej Timofejev
Artemis
by Viktor Ivaniv
ship of goblins
by Ksenia Shcherbino

Zoran Živković

"Rendezvous in Front of the House," Zoran Živković
by
"The Metaphysical Fantasias of Zoran Živković," Michael Morrison
by
Zoran Živković: A Biographical Sketch
by Michael A. Morrison
FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
"The Teashop"
by Zoran Živković
INTERVIEW WEB EXCLUSIVE
Fantastika and the Literature of Serbia: A Conversation with Zoran Živković
by Michael A. Morrison
WEB EXCLUSIVE
A Bibliography of the Works of Zoran Živković
by Zoran Živković

INTERVIEWS

"Literary Cairo, A Conversation with Samia Mehrez," Michelle Johnson
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
"My Life as Cinema: A Conversation with Samuel Shimon"
by Kaitlin Hawkins

Fiction

"Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction," Mario Bellatin
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
"The Demon of Hunger"
by Tania Malyarchuk

Poetry

Two Poems, Alistair Noon
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Three Poems
by Askold Bazhanov

In Every Issue

AUTHOR PROFILE: Zoe Whittall
by
CITY PROFILE: Yerevan, Armenia
by
INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY: Meet "Bo from Ro": Building Romanian Crime Writing, J. Madison Davis
by
OUTPOST: Los Angeles
by
WHAT TO READ NOW: Zimbabwe
by Brian Chikwava

ESSAYS

"Emerging Ukrainian Women Prose Writers: Twenty Years After Independence"
by Michael M. Naydan

EDITOR'S NOTE
by

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