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From World Literature Today 85, no. 3

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Featuring German-language crime fiction, women's soccer literature and a fascinating interview with Danish novelist Carsten Jensen.

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Table of Contents

SPECIAL SECTION: German Crime Writing
Guest edited by J. Madison Davis

  • Introduction, J. Madison Davis, guest editor
  • FICTION: Lisa Lercher, "Forty-three-year-old woman seeking..."
  • ESSAY: Beatrix Kramlovsky, "Show Your Face, oh Violence"
  • ESSAY: Almuth Heuner, "Germany's Crime and Mystery Scene"
  • FICTION: Nina George, "The Light in the West"
  • ESSAY: Hughes Schlueter, "The Grand Duchy Strikes Back"
  • ESSAY: Paul Ott, "Murder in the Alpenglow: Swiss Crime Writing in the German Language"
  • ESSAY: Thomas Przybilka, "A Resource for Lovers of Crime Writing: The Bonn Archive of Secondary Crime Writing Literature"

SPECIAL SECTION: World Cup/World Lit 2011
Guest edited by John Turnbull

  • Introduction, John Turnbull, guest editor
  • INTERVIEW: John Turnbull, "A Conversation with Nalinaksha Bhattacharya"
  • FICTION: Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, "Hem and Football" an excerpt
  • POETRY: Mona Nicole Sfeir, "Laws of the Game (adapted from FIFA 2010-11)"
  • INTERVIEW: Sandra Kingery, "A Conversation with Ana María Moix"
  • ESSAY: Jennifer Doyle, "Soccer, Art and Desire"
  • INTERVIEW: John Turnbull, "A Conversation with Elísabet Jökulsdóttir"
  • ESSAY: Clarice Lispector, "Armando Nogueira, Soccer, and Me (Poor Thing)"

EDITOR'S NOTE

LETTERS

NOTEBOOK

  • WLT Online Book ClubThe Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky
  • Author Profile: Jonas Hassen Khemiri
  • Czesław Miłosz Centennial
  • City Profile: Tallinn, Estonia

POETRY

  • Raquel Chalfi, "Double Exposure in the Black Forest"

Q&A: WLT INTERVIEWS

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WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW

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