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Four Poems

Mei-Tal Nadler
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Two Poems

Tahel Frosh
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New Hebrew Writing

CREATIVE NONFICTION “Alas, Baghdad Sits Solitary,” by Almog Behar

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CREATIVE NONFICTION “Rock, Paper,” by Tomer Gardi

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FICTION “To Jaffa,” by Ayman Sikseck

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INTERVIEW “Helping Young Writers Find Their Voice: A Conversation with Dory Manor,” by Adriana X. Jacobs

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FICTION “Nine Fictions,” by Daniel Oz

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FICTION “Screw You, Zamenhof,” by Yiftach Ashkenazi

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FICTION “Book Week,” by Raveh Sagie

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POETRY Four Poems, by Yaakov Biton

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POETRY Three Poems, by Tahel Frosh

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POETRY Five Poems, by Saar Yachin

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FICTION “Mosquito,” by Roy Chen

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FICTION “Master of the Short Story (an excerpt),” by Maya Arad

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FICTION “Readers’ Reports,” by Yael Neeman

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INTRO

by Jessica Cohen, Adriana X. Jacobs, Adam Rovner

INTERVIEW WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Dinah Assouline Stillman

POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Tahel Frosh

Booklist

by Jessica Cohen, Adriana X. Jacobs, Adam Rovner

POETRY

by Mei-Tal Nadler

Essays

Aesthetics of Dystopia: Blindness from Novel to Film, by Carolina Rueda

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“The Showa Masterwork of Manga Pioneer Shigeru Mizuki,” by Deji Bryce Olukotun

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VIDEO WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Adnan Mahmutović, Lucy Durneen

Fiction

“The End of the Game,” by Xie Hong

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WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Saikat Majumdar

WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Yevgeny Lukin

Interviews

“The Secret History of Female Muslim Empowerment: A Conversation with Kenizé Mourad,” by Jacob Daniels

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“The Punished Body: An Interview with Pedro Lemebel,” by John Better

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Poetry

Two Poems, by Yi Lu

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“Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory,” by Frank Paino

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“To Octavio Paz,” by Yau Ching

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Varia

Behind the Scenes: Rediscovering the WLT Archives

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City Profile: Kyoto, by Laura R. Hernandez

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Outpost: “Harmony with Books and the Ganga,” by Jordan Woodward

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“Interarts Poetry: Poetry Between, Among, and in the Midst,” by Denise Newman

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by Skyler Stanley

by WLT

Celebrating the Puterbaugh Legacy

Luisa Valenzuela: The 1995 Puterbaugh Fellow

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Marina Carr: The 2012 Puterbaugh Fellow

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Dacia Maraini: The 2011 Puterbaugh Fellow

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Roberto Fernández Retamar: The 2002 Puterbaugh Fellow

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J. M. Coetzee: The 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow

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Maaza Mengiste: The 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow

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TRIBUTE

by Daniel Simon

International Crime & Mystery

“Playing by the Rules,” by J. Madison Davis

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by Daniel Simon