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2013 NSK Neustadt Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye

• Editor’s Note, January 2014
• INTRO: “A Tribute to Naomi Shihab Nye” by Ibtisam Barakat
• POETRY: “Table of Continents” by Ibtisam Barakat
• SPEECH: “Landscapes We Learn to Love” The 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize Lecture by Naomi Shihab Nye
• POETRY: “Arabs in Finland” by Naomi Shihab Nye
• POETRY: “Business” by Naomi Shihab Nye

Classics Rekindled

• WEB EXCLUSIVE “The Persistence of Romanticism in World Literature” by William Black
• INTERVIEW: “Ancient Words, Modern Words A Conversation with Anne Carson” by Peter Constantine
• CREATIVE NONFICTION: The most burning part of you remaining: your torment” by Jean-Paul Michel
• POETRY: “Ex-voto” by Jean-Paul Michel
• POETRY: “Rotator Cuff Vortex” by Lucia Perillo
• ESSAY: “Innocents Aloud” by Francesca Segal
• POETRY: “A Poet Was Here” by Sylva Fischerová
• POETRY: “In Lands Imagination Favors” by Don Schofield
• WEB EXCLUSIVE BOOK REVIEW: “A Garden of Forking Paths” by Frederick Turner

ESSAYS

• WEB EXCLUSIVE “Eduard Màrquez’s Zugzwang: Cosmpolitanism, Minority, Translation” by Lawrence Venuti
• “Fire in the House” by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
• “A Network of Holes” by Cristina Rivera Garza
• WEB EXCLUSIVE “Should Books Be Sold?” by Ilan Stavans

POETRY

• WEB EXCLUSIVE “Chikome Xochitl: A Poem in Seven Parts” by Juan Hernández Ramírez
• Two Poems by Fabio Morábito

FICTION

• WEB EXCLUSIVE “Loneliness” by Eduard Màrquez
• “Nechama’s Gun” by Joshua Bernstein
• Two Fictions by Eduard Màrquez

IN EVERY ISSUE

• City Profile: Medieval Modernity Untouched, Siena, Itlay
• What to Read Now: Arabic Books for Teens
• Author Profile: Mia Couto, Winner of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
• New Books: Crime Scenes
• Editor’s Pick: The Dailiness by Lauren Camp
• Outpost: Fretex, Oslo

• What She Laughingly Calls Her Career: Susan Moody on Thirty Years of Writing (and Almost as Many Books)

INTERVIEWS

• “”A Place for the Creative Imagination as Never Before” David Edgecombe on Theater, Film, and New Media in the Caribbean” by Erika J. Waters