FICTION
Noires blessures
Louis-Philippe Dalembert
Volver a Berlín
Eliah Germani
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano
The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City
Samia Mehrez, ed.
L'Evaporation de l'oncle
Christine Montalbetti
Vassiliki
Vasso Nikolopoulou
It Eagleton Segel
Arjen Terpstra
The Ghostwriter and The Five Wonders of the Danube
Zoran Živković. Alice Copple-Tošić, tr.
VERSE
The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology
Ilan Stavans, ed.
Southern Barbarians and The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009
John Mateer
Doors in a Meadow
Bratislav R. Milanović. Biljana D. Obradović, tr.
Slow Dance
Saleem Peeradina
One with Others
C. D. Wright
Flash Cards
Yu Jian. Wang Ping & Ron Padgett, tr.
MISCELLANEOUS
Politika Poezije: Tranzicija i Pesnički Eksperiment
Dubravka Djurić
A mai történelmi regény
Ágnes Heller
Sex and the River Styx
Edward Hoagland
Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde
Alec G. Hargreaves et al., ed.
November 2011
In this issue of WLT, a special section devoted to Post-Soviet Literature features recent work from Russia and other former republics, twenty years after the collapse of the regime.
Table of Contents
COVER FEATURE
Post-Soviet Literature: Twenty Years
After the Fall
- INTRO: "Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Russian and East European Literature Today," Emily D. Johnson
- ESSAY: "Censorship in Russia: Old and New Faces," Nadezhda Azhgikhina
- ESSAY: "Poetry in the Cloud: An Experiment, Results, and n+1 Hypotheses," Kevin M. F. Platt
- Poetry by Igor Belov, Semyon Khanin, Artur Punte, Feodor Swarovski, Sergej Timofejev, Viktor Ivaniv, and Ksenia Shcherbinio
- FICTION: "Petrov and Markov," Oleg Woolf
- ESSAY: "Re-Visioning the Past: Russian Literary Classics in Film," Catharine Nepomnyashchy
- POETRY: "The Rock or, A Third Anecdote about Wallace Stevens," Grigory Kruzhkov
- EXCERPT: The Button, Iren Rozdobudko
READING LIST: WLT's post-Soviet reading list- New! VIDEO: Multimedia poetry from Orbita 4
SPECIAL SECTION
Zoran Živković
- "Zoran Živković: A Biographical Sketch," Michael Morrison
- "Rendezvous in Front of the House," Zoran Živković
- "The Metaphysical Fantasias of Zoran Živković," Michael Morrison
- FICTION: "The Teashop," Zoran Živković
- INTERVIEW: "Fantastika and the Literature of Serbia: A Conversation with Zoran Živković," Michael A. Morrison
- A Bibliography of the Works of Zoran Živković
INTERVIEWS
- "My Life as Cinema: A Conversation with Samuel Shimon," Kaitlin Hawkins
- "Literary Cairo, A Conversation with Samia Mehrez," Michelle Johnson
ESSAYS
FICTION
- "The Demon of Hunger," Tania Malyarchuk
- "Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction," Mario Bellatin
POETRY
- Three Poems by Askold Bazhanov
- Two Poems, Alistair Noon
IN EVERY ISSUE
- LETTERS/EDITOR'S CHOICE
- BOOK CLUB: An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
- AUTHOR PROFILE: Zoe Whittall
- WHAT TO READ NOW: Zimbabwe
- CITY PROFILE: Yerevan, Armenia
- INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY: Meet "Bo from Ro": Building Romanian Crime Writing, J. Madison Davis
- OUTPOST: Los Angeles
