Table of Contents

• Editor’s Note
  by Daniel Simon

New Hebrew Writing

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

Essays

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

Fiction

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

  by Yevgeny Lukin

Interviews

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

Poetry

• Two Poems, by Yi Lu
  by
• “Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory,” by Frank Paino
  by
• “To Octavio Paz,” by Yau Ching
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Celebrating the Puterbaugh Legacy

• TRIBUTE
  A Tribute to Alene Webb Puterbaugh (1890 –1985)
  by Daniel Simon
• Luisa Valenzuela: The 1995 Puterbaugh Fellow
  by
• Marina Carr: The 2012 Puterbaugh Fellow
  by
• Dacia Maraini: The 2011 Puterbaugh Fellow
  by
• Roberto Fernández Retamar: The 2002 Puterbaugh Fellow
  by
• J. M. Coetzee: The 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow
  by
• Maaza Mengiste: The 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow
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In Every Issue

• Behind the Scenes: Rediscovering the WLT Archives
  by
• City Profile: Kyoto, by Laura R. Hernandez
  by
• Summer Reading Guide
  by Skyler Stanley
• Editors’ Picks: Summer Reads
  by WLT
• 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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International Crime & Mystery

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