CURRENT ISSUE

Volume 93 No. 1, Winter 2019

Edwidge Danticat, winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, headlines the January 2019 issue of World Literature Today. In the issue’s expanded 112-page format, the book review section has also been given a fresh new look, with boxed reviews highlighting titles we’re especially excited to share with readers. Additional highlights include work by Achy Obejas, André Naffis-Sahely, Grace Chia, Emeka Ogboh, Patrick Chamoiseau, and four “fabulist fables” by Pierre Bettencourt. As always, new books, recommended reading lists, and luminous literati are featured throughout, along with web-exclusive content.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

by Daniel Simon

Edwidge Danticat

ESSAY
“All Geography Is Within Me”: Writing Beginnings, Life, Death, Freedom, and Salt

by Edwidge Danticat
ESSAY
Bearing the Unforgivable: A Tribute to Edwidge Danticat

by Achy Obejas
INTERVIEW
“The Story Will Be There When You Need It”: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat

by Erik Gleibermann
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Met Fanm Sou Ou

by Marie Casimir
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Creating Dangerously Now

by Catherine John
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
“Stretching the Limits of Silence”: Witness and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s Nonfiction

by Renee H. Shea

In Every Issue

City Profile
Bodhgaya, India

by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Translator’s Note
Look to the Law: On Translating the Poems of Ennio Moltedo

by Marguerite Feitlowitz
Lit Lists
The Official Audiobook Guide to the Western European Road Trip

by Tyler McElroy
What to Read Now
Horror in Translation

by Rachel Cordasco
International Crime & Mystery
Our “Golden Age” of TV Crime Drama: The Artistic Promise of Television Blooms

by J. Madison Davis
Editor’s Pick
Editor’s Pick: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

by Michelle Johnson
Outpost
Jawahar Kala Kendra

by Ella Parsons

Essays

You’ll Never Leave: Seeking Salvation on the Shores of Morocco

by André Naffis-Sahely
PREMIUM
Weaving a Creole Patrimony

by Patrick Chamoiseau

Fiction

If You’d Only Look

by Sonya Chyu
Four Fabulist Fables

by Pierre Bettencourt
Auntie Nabat’s Bread

by Nariman Hasanzade
The Talus of Madame Liken

by Asja Bakić
WEB EXCLUSIVE PREMIUM
God’s Intern

by Namrata Verghese

Interviews

The Aesthetics of the City: A Conversation with Youssouf Amine Elalamy

by Nisrine Slitine El Mghari
Writing Singapore: Anglophone City Poetics and the Asian Experience: A Conversation with Grace Chia

by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Jason Eng Hun Lee
Food and Migration: A Conversation with Artist Emeka Ogboh (Recipe Included)

by Michelle Johnson
Critiquing Colonialism from Within: A Conversation with Helen Johnson & John Kinsella

by Michelle Johnson
A Mother’s Bread: An Interview with Nariman Hasanzade

by Shahla Naghiyeva

Poetry

Two Poems

by Namrata Verghese
Two Poems

by Sharmistha Mohanty
Three Poems

by Khal Torabully
Four Poems

by Blanca Garnica
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Thinking over Helen Johnson’s Already Much Thought over “‘A Solipsistic Colonial Fantasy’ . . . Impotent Observer” and Unhitching Myself from Kant’s First Moment

by John Kinsella
Five Poems

by Ennio Moltedo

BOOK REVIEWS

View all reviews in this issue

News & Events

March 21, 2019

Call for Solidarity from Mozambique: A Message from 2014 Neustadt Prize Laureate Mia Couto

December 13, 2018

Announcing WLT’s 2018 Pushcart Prize Nominees

December 11, 2018

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2018

Follow Us

Subscribe in a reader

Subscribe by email

Subscription Options

Print Subscription
Digital Subscription
WLT on the Magzter app
Or donate!

E-NEWSLETTER

REVIEW WLT

Tell us what you think about the current issue or about the website by filling out our form.

WLT FOR INSTITUTIONS

Get WLT in print, digitally, or both!

As a part of the JSTOR CSP program, access the new issues and archives of WLT seamlessly.

World Literature Today
630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110
Norman, OK 73019-4037
405-325-4531

Updated by World Literature Today: [email protected]