World Literature Today – July 01, 2019
SUMMER READS AMINE LIT A CIGARETTE. He watched people walking across the street in the haze he’d made, in the haze they were wit ...
FICTION ROSES AND JASMINE “There is no revolution. Bouazizi wasn’t a hero. He was cheating people. His scale was rigged.” “What? ...
Amine turned from Ahmad and kept walking, feeling better as he walked faster on that road. The smoke from the smashed car ascend ...
POETRY Two Catalan Poems by Gemma Gorga La bona educació L’estiu que complia set anys li van regalar un estoig de fusta amb un l ...
Direction of Growth Flowers hats fingernails and doors grow outward. If they ever grew inward earth’s tunnel would be pierced wi ...
Q&A The View from Elsewhere A Conversation with Aminatta Forna by Keija Parssinen Happiness, Aminatta Forna’s fourth novel, ...
doing is describing what it might look like from elsewhere, the view from elsewhere. Parssinen: When you have that question you’ ...
Q&A AMINATTA FORNA resignation, as well as his final letter before he died, which was the one in which he said we were on th ...
many elements all the time, if you think about the village where a lot of my extended family live, they’ve dealt with two choler ...
Beginners by Mika Seifert In this coming-of-age tale with a dark twist, two brothers engage in a deathly game. FICTION M Y BROTH ...
even if only for those three or four minutes. He said they were the longest, interminable three or four minutes he’d known. Once ...
while mine, naturally, still in its infancy, was taking ages to grow, not only because I was dying at a slower rate than Lem, bu ...
Most Dialed Number The rain causes me to take shelter in an empty telephone box. On one side someone’s plastered up the ten comm ...
ESSAY Translating Cuba in the Twenty-First Century by Vanessa Garcia Through conversations with several translators, Vanessa Gar ...
Cuban writers or Cuban American writers like Blanco who live outside the island and write in English. Others Aparicio has transl ...
resources. He’ll ask friends in Amster- dam for sources; he’s not just sitting there googling.” Kushner has translated other wri ...
they view a business across the street, or searching through a box of crumpled old photographs, or introducing you to the dog wh ...
POETRY Two Poems by Major Jackson November in Xichang There are cities one won’t see again. – Joseph Brodsky I. Only a bearded s ...
The Flag of Imagination Furled Because we held hands I never prophesied the tenants of cemeteries nor found time to solve the gr ...
FICTION The Wig by Sepideh Zamani Banned from entering soccer stadiums since Iran’s 1979 revolution, the young women in this sto ...
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