Coming in May

WLT celebrates its 350th issue!

with

a special section on German-language women writers
featuring Hester Baer’s essay on Julia Franck, Charlotte Roche, and
Kathrin Röggla, Alexandra Merley Hill’s interview with Julia Franck,
and an excerpt from Julia Franck’s Back to Back

and

a special section on culture and conflict
featuring Persis Karim on the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project, Blake Atwood
on censorship in Iran, and an interview with Raja Shehadeh (Palestine)

plus

• fiction by  Rezo Gabriadze (Georgia)
• poetry by Aicha Bassry (Morocco) and Pia Tafdrup (Denmark)
• Tessa Ditner on “London and the Grotesque”
• Claire Messud’s essay “An American in Berlin”
• interviews with Virginie Brac (France), Geoffrey Philp (Jamaica), and Ali Podrimja (Kosova)
• visits to Cape Town and Mumbai
• book reviews from around the world