Volume 85 No. 4, July/August 2011
In the July 2011 issue of WLT, readers are invited to listen in on The Many Voices of Italian Literature, among them Dacia Maraini, Amara Lakhous, Tiziano Scarpa, Ermanno Cavazzoni, and ten poets. Also new to this issue: a special section devoted to novelist Han Shaogong, winner of the 2011 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, plus additional contributions by Singapore's O Thiam Chin (fiction) and Poland's Julia Hartwig (poetry).
Table of Contents
COVER FEATURE: The Many Voices of Italian Literature
- Featuring an interview with Dacia Maraini, essays by Antony Shugaar and Jamie Richards, poetry by Andrea Zanzotto, Fernanda Romagnoli, Luciano Erba, Tiziano Scarpa, Maria Luisa Spaziani, Pier Luigi Bacchini, Patrizia Cavalli, Gianni Celati, Antonella Anedda, Valerio Magrelli, and Alessio Zanelli, and fiction by Amara Lakhous and Ermanno Cavazzoni.
WEB EXCLUSIVES
- POETRY by Ascanio Celestini, Leonardo Sinisgalli and Julian Stannard.
- FICTION by Ermanno Cavazzoni
SPECIAL SECTION: Newman Prizewinner Han Shaogong
with contributions from
Han Shaogong & Julia Lovell
WEB EXCLUSIVES
EDITOR'S CHOICE
NOTEBOOK
- WLT ONLINE BOOK CLUB: Stigmata by Lorenzo Mattotti & Claudio Piersanti
- AUTHOR PROFILE: Natacha Appanah
- WHAT TO READ NOW
- REGIONAL PROFILE: Liguria, Italy, Gulf of Poets
INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY
- Noir, Italian Style - J. Madison Davis
FICTION
- Eyes and Ears by O Thiam Chin
- Excerpt from The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
ESSAYS
- Julia Hartwig's Reality Mysticism by Cynthia Haven
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Improbable Reality of Europe's Dark Past by Anna Paterson
OUTPOSTS: Tunisia
WLT wins a 2011 Gold Ink Award
