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May 2011

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Volume 85 Number 3, May/June 2011

WLT's May 2011 issue features not one but two special sections: German-language crime fiction, with short stories by Lisa Lercher and Nina George plus surveys from Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland; and women's soccer literature, featuring Mona Nicole Sfeir, Ana María Moix, Sandra Kingery, Yrsa Roca Fannberg, Jennifer Doyle, Elísabet Jökulsdóttir, and Clarice Lispector. Also, don't miss the fascinating interview with Danish novelist Carsten Jensen and poetry by Raquel Chalfi.

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

POETRY

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

Q&A: WLT INTERVIEWS

WEB EXCLUSIVES: MARITIME READING

WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW

OUTPOSTS: Norwich, Norfolk

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