Shadow Portrait
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Rachel Ang is a comics artist from Melbourne, Australia. Her work has been published by The Lifted Brow, Going Down Swinging, Meanjin, and The Lily/The Washington Post. Her first book, Swimsuit, won a Silver Ledger Award for Excellence in Comics and Graphic Novels. She is the winner of the 2018 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Fiction.
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Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
by Daniel Simon
In Every Issue
City Profile
Leipzig, Goethe’s “Little Paris”
by Jessica Hilton
What to Read Now
Cities
by Poupeh Missaghi
Translator’s Note
Hauntings
by John Bengan
Lit Trends
3 Online Book Clubs with a Global Perspective
by Elizabeth Rae
En Face: Conversations on the Future of Translation
Good Storytelling Still Trending: An Interview with Antonia Lloyd-Jones
by Veronica Esposito
Lit Lists
Readers Respond: Graphic Nonfiction
by The Editors of WLT
Outpost
Tokyo’s Mukōjima-Hyakkaen Garden
by Tyler McElroy
Graphic Nonfiction
Guantanamo Voices (an excerpt)
by Sarah Mirk, Omar Khouri
The Life and Death of Narmanli
by Elif Ince, Cem Dinlenmiş
In Praise of Estrangement
by Julia Alekseyeva
Shadow Portrait
by Rachel Ang
Wishful Thinking
by Zoe Belsinger
INTERVIEW
Of Comics and Bipolar Disorder: A Conversation with Rachel Lindsay
by Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Sweetha Saji
Poetry
Two Persian Poems from Afghanistan
by Elyas Alavi
Three Poems from Lebanon
by Mohamad Nassereddine
Easter Sunday, Rajab in Mid-Moon
by Khaled Mattawa
Fiction
The Pregnant Woman from Zamboanga
by Elizabeth Joy Serrano-Quijano
Margherita
by Roberto Carretta
The Old Man Who Lives Two Floors Below
by Peter Sheehy
Monsters (an excerpt)
by Stéphane Bouquet
Interviews
Translating History: A Conversation with Isabel Fargo Cole
by Andrea Bryant
Our Nations, Ourselves: A Conversation with Robin Hemley
by Tiffany Hawk
Essays
Race, History, and the Body: Humanity on Display
by Matthew Shenoda
Nigerian Fiction Reenvisions the Masculine
by Erik Gleibermann
Creative Nonfiction
Cheating / Death
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay