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Home  | Book Reviews  | May 2012 


FICTION

  • Sorry

    Zoran Drvenkar

     
  • The Last Warner Woman
    Kei Miller

     
  • After the Apocalypse

    Maureen F. McHugh

     
  • The World Through the Eyes of Angels

    Mahmoud Saeed. Samuel Salter, Zahra Jishi, Rafah Abuinnab trs.

     
  • Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic

    Eduardo Jiménez Mayo, Chris N. Brown, eds.

     


VERSE

  • In the Shadow of Al-Andalus

    Victor Hernández Cruz

     
  • Come, Thief

    Jane Hirshfield

     
  • A Soul at Play
    Shizue Ogawa. Donna Tamaki, Soraya Umewaka, and the author, trs.

     


MISCELLANEOUS

  • Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement

    Farzaneh Milani

     
  • MetaMaus

    Art Spiegelman

     

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BACK ISSUE

May/June 2012

WLT celebrates its 350th issue with features on contemporary German-language women writers and authors who overcome obstacles of political upheaval and censorship in Iran, Iraq, and Palestine.


Table of Contents

Women Writing German Today

EXCERPT Back to Back (an excerpt)
by
ESSAY "Sex, Death, and Motherhood in the Eurozone," Hester Baer
by
INTERVIEW
Writing from the Gaps: A Conversation with Julia Franck
by Alexandra M. Hill

Culture and Conflict

ESSAY "Sense and Censorship in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Blake Atwood
by
INTERVIEW "Internal and External Borders: A Conversation with Raja Shehadeh," Persis Karim
by
READING LIST WEB EXCLUSIVE
For Further Reading: Culture and Conflict
by
ESSAY
A Day That Lingers with Us Still Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
by Persis Karim
PHOTO GALLERY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides
by
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
No Ordinary Place: Writers and Writing in Occupied Palestine
by Rima Najjar Merriman

INTERVIEWS

"A Conversation with Geoffrey Philp," Erika J. Waters
by
"Finally, Ali Podrimja Spoke” A Conversation, Adam J. Goldwyn & Rineta Hoxha
by
A Brief Conversation with Anna Winger
by

ESSAYS

"An American in Berlin," Claire Messud
by
London and the Grotesque
by Tessa Ditner
An American in Berlin
by Claire Messud

Fiction

"The White Bridge," Rezo Gabriadze
by

Poetry

Four Poems by Aicha Bassry
by
"Leaving Home," Pia Tafdrup
by
Three Poems, Ali Podrimja
by
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Two Poems by Geoffrey Philp
by Geoffrey Philp
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Bilingual Recordings, A Soul at Play by Shizue Ogawa
by Shizue Ogawa
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Bilingual recordings: Eight Poems by Aicha Bassry
by Aicha Bassry

In Every Issue

International Crime & Mystery: A Conversation with Virginie Brac, J. Madison Davis
by
City Profile: Mumbai
by
New Books: Middle Eastern Memoirs
by
Outpost: Cape Town
by
What to Read Now: Syria
by Nikolaos van Dam
Editor's Choice: The Life of Rebecca Jones, Angharad Price
by Marla Johnson

EDITOR'S NOTE
by Daniel Simon

Reading Lists

WEB EXCLUSIVE
For Further Reading: Contemporary German Literature
by

BOOK REVIEWS


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