World Literature Today – July 01, 2019

Climate Change Lit

Featuring

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Fiction

14

Roses and Jasmine

by Myronn Hardy

28

Beginners

by Mika Seifert

38

The Wig

by Sepideh Zamani

Q&A

24

The View from Elsewhere:

Aminatta Forna

by Keija Parssinen

42

Co-translating Hanoch Levin,

the “Beckett of Israel”:

Jessica Cohen & Evan Fallenberg

by Janice Weizman

Essays

32

Translating Cuba in the

Twenty-First Century

by Vanessa Garcia REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY

NgũPola OloixaracHan Kang

Mhgĩ wa Thiong’o

Old and New SaigonAndrew Lam’s

On Translating CubaVanessa Garcia

Visits Xichang in NovemberMajor Jackson

Translating PlaywrightHanoch Levin

South Africa, the US & BeyondDispatches from Australia, Brazil, Mexico,

A Rising Sea

of Climate

Change Lit

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SUMMER 2019

Crime & Mystery

10

A Chat with Eddie Muller,

TCM’s “Czar of Noir”

by J. Madison Davis

Poetr y

13

Five Russian Poems

by Aleksandra Tsibulia

22

Two Catalan Poems

by Gemma Gorga

31

Two Hungarian Poems

by Renátó Fehér

36

Two US Poems

by Major Jackson

47

Pol len

by Marjorie Evasco

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Living in the Tenses in Saigon

by Andrew Lam

52

48

onthecover

Aritst Zaria Forman

documents climate

change with pastel

drawings. B-15Y

Iceberg, Antarctica

No. 1, 72 x 72 in.,

soft pastel on

paper, 2017

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Contents

53 Alberto Chimal

58 Jane Hirshfield

60 Chris Arthur

65 David Holmgren

70 Márcia Wayna Kambeba

71 Tiffany Higgins

72 Sandra Jensen

74 Pireeni Sundaralingam

Summer Editors’ Picks

19 Michelle Johnson

23 Daniel Simon

35 Rob Vollmar