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World Literature in Review, March/April 2012

FICTION

The Third Reich
Roberto Bolaño

Vertical Motion
Can Xue

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories
Margaret Drabble

Before the End, After the Beginning
Dagoberto Gilb

Engel des Vergessens
Maja Haderlap

L'Art français de la guerre
Alexis Jenni

Daytripper
Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá

Vertigo: A Cairo Political Thriller
Ahmed Mourad

Shards
Ismet Prcic

Three Books: Osama, Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God, and Cloud Permutations
Lavie Tidhar

La belle amour humaine
Lyonel Trouillot

 

VERSE

Walking on a Washing Line
Kim Seung-Hee

The Rivered Earth
Vikram Seth

Every Riven Thing
Christian Wiman

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Limonov
Emmanuel Carrère

Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage
James Marcus, ed.

House of Stone
Anthony Shadid

Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age
Kevin Stein

Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milošević
Marko Živković

 

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Table of Contents

EDITOR'S NOTE

COVER FEATURE
International Literary Journalism

INTERVIEWS

ESSAYS

FICTION

POETRY

  • Two Poems, Angélica Freitas
  • Three Poems, Jacek Gutorow

READING LIST

IN EVERY ISSUE

  • LETTERS/EDITOR'S CHOICE
  • WHAT TO READ NOW: Greece
  • CITY PROFILE: Havana, Cuba
  • INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY: "Credibility and Popularity in the Historical Mystery," J. Madison Davis
  • OUTPOST: Paris, France

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