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Home  | Book Reviews  | January 2012 


FICTION

  • The Traveler and the Innkeeper

    Fadhil al-Azzawi

     
  • The Sense of an Ending

    Julian Barnes

     
  • Lucille

    Ludovic Debeurme

     
  • River of Smoke

    Amitav Ghosh

     
  • Guadalajara
    Quim Monzó

     


VERSE

  • Tres

    Roberto Bolaño

     
  • Clavics

    Geoffrey Hill

     
  • Raptors
    Toon Tellegen

     


MISCELLANEOUS

  • The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction

    Rachel Haywood Ferreira

     
  • Arguably: Essays

    Christopher Hitchens

     
  • The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

    Paul Theroux

     

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January 2012

American young-adult novelist Virginia Euwer Wolff, winner of the 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, headlines the January 2012 issue of World Literature Today.


Table of Contents

NSK Neustadt Prize Laureate Virginia Euwer Wolff

ESSAY "The Courage to Be Compassionate: A Tribute to Virginia Euwer Wolff"
by
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
"A Case of Time-Release Insight: The 2011 NSK Prize Lecture"
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
READING LIST WEB EXCLUSIVE
8 Featured Author Picks: Favorite Children's Literature
by

INTERVIEWS

"Eva Stachniak," Ania Spyra
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Poetic Journeys: A Conversation with Nathalie Handal
by Kaitlin Bankston
A Brief Conversation with Laleh Khadivi
by

ESSAYS

Post-3/11 Literature: Two Writers from Fukushima
by
"The Single, Shared Text? Translation and World Literature," Valerie Henitiuk
by
"Burmese Poetry: Tectonic Shifts," James Byrne
by
The State of Zapotec Poetry: Can Poetry Save an Endangered Culture?
by Clare Sullivan
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Poetry Is Liberty: The Macondo Writers’ Workshop in Mexico
by Wendy Call

Fiction

"Past-Bitterness-Recalling and Present-Sweetness-Realizing Meal," Qiu Xiaolong
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
In the Palace of the Dragon King
by Hiromi Kawakami

Poetry

"Zodiac 9," Moikom Zeqo
by
Six Burmese Poets
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Four Poems by Nathalie Handal
by Nathalie Handal
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Seven Poems by Feliciano Sánchez Chan
by Feliciano Sánchez Chan
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Zapotec Poetry: Bilingual recordings
by Irma Pineda, Natalia Toledo & Victor Terán
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Photo Gallery: Zapotec Artwork
by

In Every Issue

LETTERS/EDITOR'S PICK
by
CITY PROFILE: Hargeisa, Somalia
by
"He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Rise of the Police Procedural" by J. Madison Davis
by
OUTPOST: Kesennuma, Japan
by
WHAT TO READ NOW: Sri Lanka
by Ru Freeman

EDITOR'S NOTE, January 2012
by Daniel Simon

Reading Lists

WEB EXCLUSIVE
WLT's Apocalypse Reading List
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
10 Top Japanese Authors of the Past Decade (2000–2010)
by

BOOK REVIEWS


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