FICTION
The Traveler and the Innkeeper
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Hotel Bosphorus
Esmahan Aykol
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The Meagre Tarmac
Clark Blaise
A Small Hotel
Robert Olen Butler
My Two Worlds
Sergio Chejfec
Lucille
Ludovic Debeurme
All the Time in the World
E. L. Doctorow
River of Smoke
Amitav Ghosh
Bande-son
Bertrand de la Peine
Guadalajara
Quim Monzó
Assommons les pauvres!
Shumona Sinha
The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am
Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Day of the Oprichnik
Vladimir Sorokin
De treastfûgel
Hylke Speerstra
VERSE
Tres
Roberto Bolaño
About the Existence of Love
Edith Covensky
Clavics
Geoffrey Hill
Bootleg Copy
Laurynas Katkus
A Hundred Doors
Michael Longley
Chickweed Wintergreen
Harry Martinson
Building the Barricade and Other Poems
Anna Swir
Raptors
Toon Tellegen
MISCELLANEOUS
The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
Rachel Haywood Ferreira
Arguably: Essays
Christopher Hitchens
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will
Judith Schalansky
The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
Paul Theroux
January 2012
IAmerican young-adult novelist Virginia Euwer Wolff, winner of the 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, headlines the January 2012 issue of WLT.
Table of Contents
COVER FEATURE
NSK Neustadt Prize Laureate
Virginia Euwer Wolff
- ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: [Excerpt] "A Case of Time-Release Insight: The 2011 NSK Prize Lecture," Virginia Euwer Wolff
- ESSAY:"The Courage to Be Compassionate: A Tribute to Virginia Euwer Wolff," Suzanne Fisher Staples
- READING LIST: "Children's Literature Favorites" by featured authors from the January issue of WLT
INTERVIEWS
"Poetic Journeys: A Conversation with Nathalie Handal," Kaitlin Bankston
- "A Brief Conversation with Laleh Khadivi"
- "Eva Stachniak," Ania Spyra
ESSAYS
- "Post-3/11 Literature: Two Writers from Fukushima" Takeshi Kimoto
- "The Single, Shared Text? Translation and World Literature," Valerie Henitiuk
- "Burmese Poetry: Tectonic Shifts," James Byrne
- "The State of Zapotec Poetry: Can Poetry Save an Endangered Culture?," Clare Sullivan
- "Poetry Is Liberty: The Macondo Writers’ Workshop in Mexico," Wendy Call
FICTION
- "In the Palace of the Dragon King," Hiromi Kawakami
- "Past-Bitterness-Recalling and Present-Sweetness-Realizing Meal," Qiu Xiaolong
POETRY
- Four Poems, Nathalie Handal
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Seven Poems, Feliciano Sánchez Chan
- Zapotec Poetry: Bilingual recordings and an artists' gallery
- "Zodiac 9," Moikom Zeqo
- Six Burmese Poets
READING LIST
IN EVERY ISSUE
- LETTERS/EDITOR'S CHOICE
- WHAT TO READ NOW: Sri Lanka
- CITY PROFILE: Hargeisa, Somalia
- INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY: "He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Rise of the Police Procedural"
by J. Madison Davis - OUTPOST: Kesennuma, Japan
