To accompany Omid Fallahazad’s interview with Ravanipour that appears in the March 2015 print edition, the Feminist Press has generously granted WLT permission to reprint the title story…
Fiction
A man finishes a cedar hall closet, a wedding gift for his wife, but is the time he spends creating something perfect revealing something flawed?Photo by Randall EppSam found h…
Photo by Victoria Calligo y SolivellaWhile Slovene writer Polona Glavan’s debut novel explored the journey of young Europeans, in the following story, two widowed neighbors…
Photo by Noel Reynolds/Flickr“Birds” is one of the interrelated stories in Tianqiao shang de moshushi (Magician on the overpass), published in Taiwan in 2011. The entire…
Žydrūnas Drungilas’s first book, Kita stotelė (Next stop), is a collection of texts in v…
Photo by Fernando Rodríguez/FlickrZugzwang: a chess position where any move is disadvantageous. Eduard Màrquez applies the term to his characters who, he observes, “are subjected to forces an…
Via Prenestina. Photo by Carlo Busini/FlickrIn contrast to Michela Murgia’s Il mondo deve sapere (see WLT, Nov. 2013, 43–46), Peppe Fiore’s Nessun…- On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, the narrator recounts three near-death experiences and his journey from Morocco to France. With nods toward Dostoevsky and Genet (echoing the Lazarus scene be…
- Alberto Chimal published these stories in Spanish as “An Alphabet of Twitter-Stories: A Study by Horacio Kustos” (@hkustos) in summer 2012. In a self-interview Chimal published i…
- Photo by crowdive/FlickrBased on a legend from eighteenth-century Bengal, Shokhi Rongomala is Shaheen Akhtar’s third novel. The book follows Rongomala, a beautiful and c…
- Photo by Tortured Mind Photography/FlickrOnce again using the lens provided by detective fiction, Leonardo Padura magnifies various aspects of Cuban reality for his readers.…
Photo Nicholas A. Tonelli Marie and Frank were lifelong renters, and though moving their things out of a house was like unloading a ship, their old house didn’t sail away. It sat the…- Photo Shannalee/FlickrIn the first translation of his work into English, South Korean writer Kim Kyŏnguk imagines an ad executive confronting a man who may be his for…
- During the time my father was in the hospital, it made sense to leave the car in the hospital’s underground garage. I would stop at the top of the entrance’s small abyss and let my white Opel slide do…
- In a haze of marijuana and beer, a vacationing photojournalist discusses the state of humanity with a West Indian boy. What are we without our addictions, our distractions, and are we doomed if we…
- www.flickr.com/people/paloetic“Everything has a price,” but how do you put a price tag on the human condition? In Mahmoud Saeed’s unflinching story of abjection and brutality, the moral c…
- As this story about changing laws and changing times in South Africa reveals, repealing the letter of a law will not necessarily kill its insidious spirit.Photo illustration by J…
- To the revolutionaries of Egypt who left their couches and burnt their televisionsIt’s raining again. Like the winters of my childhood. But my head has changed and is covered in…
- For several days, it is quiet in the apartment. The sister and brother are playing quietly, and Daddy and Mama are not talking. The silence is thick and heavy. It echoes sometimes, too, when the boy a…
- Photo by uopfindsomt/FlickrFor Daniel Sada The dedication was short and impersonal, followed by the unlikely signature: Lauro H. Batallón. Santiago held the copy in his open han…
- Apologia? Manifesto? Confessional? In this stream-of-consciousness narrative, a Havana drag queen tells her story. “Fátima, Queen of the Night,” published here for the first time, won Cuban writer…
- It’s Christmas, and since it’s Christmas it seems repugnant not to have a steady boyfriend to give one gifts. A boyfriend, in short, who will take you to the Ebro River Delta from time to time, a plac…
- Still from The Coward (1965), based on Mitra’s story, directed by Satyajit Ray and starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi MukherjeeKaruna brought me my morning cup of tea herself. …
- Two friends in New York City find themselves unexpectedly at a roundabout where life, love, desire, and death all want right of way. In the struggle that ensues, there is a winner, but it isn’t on…
- Adrianne KalfopoulouAnd then what you wanted was salt, . . . but you could not turn to look. —Cecilia Woloch, “Salt”My parents were deliberate about escaping their place of origin and d…
