May 2015

BACK ISSUE

Volume 89 No. 3, May 2015

The May 2015 double issue of WLT features New Hebrew Writing: 15 Voices from Israel and Abroad, an outstanding selection of fiction and poetry by more than a dozen writers—with most of the authors appearing in English translation for the first time—plus interviews with Ronit Matalon and Dory Manor. A generous sampling of other poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, and book reviews appears elsewhere in the issue, which also offers summer reads recommended by WLT’s editors and a celebration of the legendary Puterbaugh literary festivals that have taken place at the University of Oklahoma since the late 1960s.

Editor’s Note

New Hebrew Writing

INTRO: “Prose, Poetry, and the Heresy of Normalcy: New Voices in Contemporary Hebrew Literature,” by Jessica Cohen, Adriana X. Jacobs, and Adam Rovner
READING LIST: “For Further Reading: A Booklist of Contemporary Hebrew Writing,” by Jessica Cohen, Adriana X. Jacobs, and Adam Rovner
CREATIVE NONFICTION: “Alas, Baghdad Sits Solitary,” by Almog Behar
CREATIVE NONFICTION: “Rock, Paper,” by Tomer Gardi
FICTION: “To Jaffa,” by Ayman Sikseck
POETRY: Four Poems by Mei-Tal Nadler
INTERVIEW: “Helping Young Writers Find Their Voice: A Conversation with Dory Manor,” by Adriana X. Jacobs
WEB EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “The Sounds of Memory in Writing: A Conversation with Ronit Matalon,” by Dinah Assouline Stillman
FICTION: “Nine Fictions,” by Daniel Oz
FICTION: “Screw You, Zamenhof,” by Yiftach Ashkenazi
FICTION: “Book Week,” by Raveh Sagie
POETRY: Four Poems, by Yaakov Biton
POETRY: Three Poems, by Tahel Frosh
POETRY: Five Poems, by Saar Yachin
FICTION: “Mosquito,” by Roy Chen
FICTION: “Master of the Short Story (an excerpt),” by Maya Arad
FICTION: “Readers’ Reports,” by Yael Neeman
WEB EXCLUSIVE POETRY: Two Poems, by Tahel Frosh

ESSAYS

Aesthetics of Dystopia: Blindness from Novel to Film, by Carolina Rueda
WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: “Comics, War, and Ordinary Miracles,” by Adnan Mahmutović & Lucy Durneen
“The Showa Masterwork of Manga Pioneer Shigeru Mizuki,” by Deji Bryce Olukotun

FICTION

WEB EXCLUSIVE “Curtains (an excerpt),” by Saikat Majumdar
“The End of the Game,” by Xie Hong
WEB EXCLUSIVE “Gaspers”  by Yevgeny Lukin

INTERVIEWS

“The Secret History of Female Muslim Empowerment: A Conversation with Kenizé Mourad,” by Jacob Daniels
“The Punished Body: An Interview with Pedro Lemebel,” by John Better