An Interview with Nadia Villafuerte
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Nadia Villafuerte was born in Mexico in 1978. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Barcos en Houston (Ships in Houston) and ¿Te gusta el látex, cielo? (Do you like latex, Honey?), and the novel Por el lado salvaje (On the wild side).
Julie Ann Ward was born in Oklahoma in 1983. She is an assistant professor of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American literature at the University of Oklahoma. Ward is a 2016-17 recipient of the OU Humanities Forum Fellowship, which supports her research on representations of borders in contemporary Mexican literature.
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Editor’s Note
by Daniel Simon
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SPEECH
A Girl in Litland: The 2016 Neustadt Prize Lecture
by Dubravka Ugrešić
ESSAY
Dubravka Ugrešić and Contemporary European Literature: Along a Path to Transnational Literature
by Alison Anderson
ESSAY
The American Nobel: Oklahoma’s Neustadt Prize
by Chad W. Post
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Mothers and Daughters: Generational Conflict and Social Change in the Work of Dubravka Ugrešić
by Emily D. Johnson
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Crafting Serious Work Out of Mass Culture: The Early Prose of Dubravka Ugrešić
by Dragana Obradović
Essays
PUTERBAUGH ESSAY SERIES
Strangers in the Country of the Poet
by Julia Fiedorczuk
Fiction
Of Darkness (two excerpts)
by Josefine Klougart
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by Nick Mulgrew
Cosmo Girl
by Nadia Villafuerte
Three Flash Fictions
by Olga Zilberbourg
Interviews
“An Inexhaustible Responsibility for the Other”: A Conversation with Carolyn Forché
by Chard deNiord
WEB EXCLUSIVE PREMIUM
“Emulating the Language of the Sacred”: A Conversation with Carolyn Forché
by Chard deNiord
WEB EXCLUSIVE PREMIUM
“Voices from the Debris Fields”: A Conversation with Carolyn Forché
by Chard deNiord
Northampton Calling: A Conversation with Alan Moore
by Rob Vollmar
Dressing the Tongue: The Spoken-Word Albums of Alan Moore
by Rob Vollmar
An Interview with Nadia Villafuerte
by Julie Ann Ward
Poetry
Five Poems
by Carolyn Forché
Two Poems
by Hagit Grossman
Invisible War
by Gábor Schein
Three Poems
by Shahilla Shariff
In Every Issue
City Profile
New Orleans
by David Joshua Jennings
What to Read Now
What to Read Now: When Civilization Fails
by Anastasia Edel
Translator’s Note
Crossing Borders
by Julie Ann Ward
Global Frequency
Something Old, Something New
by Rob Vollmar
Editor’s Pick
Baba Dunja’s Last Love, by Alina Bronsky
by Jen Rickard Blair
Outpost
Stockholm Literature . . . and Art
by Anna Paterson