March 2012

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Volume 86 No. 2, March 2012

A special section devoted to International Literary Journalism headlines the March 2012 issue of WLT, including a fascinating interview with Anthony Shadid, Beirut bureau chief of the New York Times, plus essays and interviews featuring journalists from Egypt, Spain, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the Netherlands. Additionally, the issue contains Roger Robinson's essay on the literature of running, poetry by Angélica Freitas (Brazil) and Jacek Gutorow (Poland), and much more.

EDITOR'S NOTE

by Daniel Simon

International Literary Journalism

ESSAY International Literary Journalism in Three Dimensions
INTERVIEW Impartiality Has Nothing to Do with Neutrality: A Conversation with Ervin Hladnik Milharčič
ESSAY The Order of the Blind Camel
ESSAY Female Narrative Journalism in Contemporary Ukraine
INTERVIEW
Reclaiming What Was Lost: A Conversation with Anthony Shadid

by Matt Carney
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Impressions from meeting Oklahoma’s greatest journalist

by Matt Carney
ESSAY
Telling Stories in Contemporary Spain: A Survey of Women Writing Literary Journalism

by Novia Pagone
FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
In Search of a Man for Friendship and Possibly More

by Empar Moliner
ARTICLE WEB EXCLUSIVE
The Pest

by Rosa Montero
ESSAY Searching for Truth: Arnon Grunberg's Literary Journalism
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Buenos Aires, the Suburbs, and the Pampas

by Pablo Calvi
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Negotiating Nationhood through the Ethnography of “Literary Series” in Nigerian National Newspapers

by James Tar Tsaaior