Volume 86 No. 1 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 WLT. Also, check out new poetry by Nathalie Handal, a French American writer of Palestinian origin, as well as several Burmese and Zapotec poets.Additional highlights include new fiction by Qiu Xiaolong (China/US), essays on post-tsunami lit from Japan and the crime genre of police procedurals, and an interview with Eva Stachniak (Poland/Canada).

Table of Contents

NSK Neustadt Prize Laureate Virginia Euwer Wolff

Interviews

Essays

Fiction

Poetry

Varia

  • 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

Reading Lists

BOOK REVIEWS