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Home  | Book Reviews  | July 2012 


FICTION

  • Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman

    Friedrich Christian Delius

     
  • Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Stories from Japan

    Helen Mitsios, ed. Pico Iyer, intro.

     
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

    Nathan Englander

     
  • A Muslim Suicide

    Bensalem Himmich

     
  • Parallel Stories

    Péter Nádas. Imre Goldstein, tr.

     
  • Il pleuvait des oiseaux

    Jocelyne Saucier

     
  • Spring

    David Szalay

     
  • Farewell Gift

    Vladimir Tasić

     
  • The Barbarian Nurseries

    Héctor Tobar

     


VERSE

  • The River White: A Confluence of Brush and Quill

    Ken Hada. Duane Hada, ill.

     
  • Yingelishi

    Jonathan Stalling

     
  • The Deleted World

    Tomas Tranströmer. Robin Robertson, tr.

     


MISCELLANEOUS

  • Oblivion: A Memoir

    Héctor Abad Faciolince. Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey, tr.

     
  • Critical Dictionary of Mexican Literature (1955-2010)

    Christopher Domínguez Michael. Lisa M. Dillman, tr.

     
  • Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century’s Identity Crisis

    Aaron Rose & Mandy Kahn. Brian Roettinger, designer.

     

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July 2012

Irish playwright Marina Carr headlines the issue, along with new creative work by Ethel Rohan, Caitriona O’Reilly, and Claire Kilroy that explores the dark side of Ireland’s economic downturn.


Table of Contents

A Tribute to Marina Carr

ESSAY "The Shadow Side of Modern Ireland," Jody Allen Randolph
by
ESSAY "Tough, Impossible Love: The Theater of Marina Carr," Mark Cuddy
by
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Directing By the Bog of Cats
by Susan Shaughnessy
VIDEO WEB EXCLUSIVE
Theater in Eleven Dimensions: A Conversation with Marina Carr
by Nancy Finn

Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland

FICTION "Major Drill," Ethel Rohan
by
EXCERPT The Devil I Know, Claire Kilroy
by
POETRY
Two Poems by Caitriona O'Reilly
by Caitriona O'Reilly

ESSAYS

"A Lesson in the Nature of Revolution," Adania Shibli
by
"What is Asia to Me? Looking East from Africa," Ngugı wa Thiong’o
by
Fun with Your New Head: Getting into SF
by Michael A. Morrison

Fiction

"We, the Daughters of Mr. Khunsur Ali," Murtedha Gzar
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Fátima, Queen of the Night
by Miguel Barnet

Poetry

"Meditation Caves of Tibet," Fred Dings
by
Two Poems, Paula Bohince
by
The Truth a Poet Can Tell
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Three Poems
by Fred Dings

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New Books: Writers and Their Cities
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Editor's Pick: Drifting House (Viking) by Krys Lee
by Jen Rickard Blair
What to Read Now: Migration Narratives
by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Reading Through a Glass Darkly: The e-Book Revolution
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EDITOR'S NOTE
by Daniel Simon

INTERVIEWS

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Turning Urban Obsolescence into Community Connection: A Conversation with John Locke
by John Tyler Allen
A Brief Conversation with Richard Mason
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The Dublin Writers Museum
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10 Unusual Micro Libraries
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WEB EXCLUSIVE
Fun with Your New Head: Science Fiction Reading List
by Kaitlin Hawkins

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