Table of Contents

• Editor’s Note

Bodies in Literature

• INTRO: “An Introductory Note,” by Sara Wilson
• POETRY: “Of Places and Positions,” by Laura Ruiz Montes
• POETRY: “Passing by Peasant Workers,” by Yin Lichuan
• FICTION: “Trespassing,” by Lorenza Ronzano
• ESSAY: “Matisse / Odalisque / Modernity,” by Najwa Ali
• WEB EXCLUSIVE ESSAY: “Written on the Body,” by Zsolt Láng
• WEB EXCLUSIVE FICTION: “Prosopopoeia” (an excerpt), by Farid Tali
• WEB EXCLUSIVE FICTION: “Doppelgänger,” by Dipika Mukherjee
• WEB EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “Phantoms as Ambassadors of Sense: A Conversation with Lorenza Ronzano,” by Anne Greeott
• POETRY: Two Poems by Zsuzsa Takács
• POETRY: Two Poems by Joshua Bennett
• POETRY: Two Poems by Nausheen Eusuf
• POETRY: “My Flesh Is Not My Heart: A Lesson for Colonizers,” by Jim Pascual Agustin
• WEB EXCLUSIVE POETRY: “Taxonomy,” by Frank Paino
• MISCELLANEOUS: “Summer Husband Gâteau with Caramel-Cream Filling: A Recipe from the Zsolt Láng Cookbook,” by Zsolt Láng
• WEB EXCLUSIVE MISCELLANEOUS: “Roasted Lover Thighs: A Recipe from the Zsolt Láng Cookbook,” by Zsolt Láng

Six Cuban Poets

• “An Introductory Note,” by Margaret Randall
• “Sunbaked Shell,” by Leymen Pérez
• “When Fear Is Dream’s Excuse,” by Yanira Marimón
• “Divided Equally,” by Laura Ruiz Montes
• “Brief Letter from Oscar Wilde to His Lover,” by Alfredo Zaldívar
• “Untitled,” by Caridad Atencio
• “Nation,” by Israel Domínguez

Essays

• “Of My Tibetan Days,” by Ma Jian
• “From Somerset, Bermuda,” by Chris Astwood

Fiction

• “Sunrise,” by Nnedi Okorafor
• “The Garden in Bloom,” by Naja Marie Aidt

Interviews

• “A Conversation with Dunya Mikhail,” by Sobia Khan

Poetry

• “Snow in Ulan Bator,” by Jiang Tao

In Every Issue

• City Profile: Beijing
• What to Read Now: “War Narratives,” by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
• New Books: Alternate Realities
• “The Shape of Arab Music to Come,” by Rob Vollmar
• Translator’s Note: “Trans-fusion Cuisine; or, Cooking with Your Ears,” by Erika Mihálycsa
• Editor’s Pick: The Mountain and the Wall and The Vienna Melody
• Outpost: “La Trobe Reading Room,” by Kelly Rogers

International Crime & Mystery

• “Bring out the Bodies,” by J. Madison Davis