WLT Book Reviews | November 2011

FICTION

Noires blessures
Louis-Philippe Dalembert
Volver a Berlín
Eliah Germani
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano
The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City
Samia Mehrez, ed.
L'Evaporation de l'oncle
Christine Montalbetti
Vassiliki
Vasso Nikolopoulou
It Eagleton Segel
Arjen Terpstra
The Ghostwriter and The Five Wonders of the Danube
Zoran Živković. Alice Copple-Tošić, tr.

VERSE

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology
Ilan Stavans, ed.
Southern Barbarians and The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009
John Mateer
Doors in a Meadow
Bratislav R. Milanović. Biljana D. Obradović, tr.
Slow Dance
Saleem Peeradina
One with Others
C. D. Wright
Flash Cards
Yu Jian. Wang Ping & Ron Padgett, tr.

MISCELLANEOUS

Politika Poezije: Tranzicija i Pesnički Eksperiment
Dubravka Djurić
A mai történelmi regény
Ágnes Heller
Sex and the River Styx
Edward Hoagland
Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde
Alec G. Hargreaves et al., ed.

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EDITOR'S NOTE

November 2011: An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon

Post-Soviet Literature: Twenty Years After the Fall

INTRO

by Emily D. Johnson

ESSAY Censorship in Russia: Old and New Faces

ESSAY

by Kevin M. F. Platt

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by Igor Belov

by Semyon Khanin

by Artur Punte

by Feodor Swarovski

by Sergej Timofejev

by Viktor Ivaniv

by Ksenia Shcherbino

FICTION "Petrov and Markov," Oleg Woolf

ESSAY "Re-Visioning the Past: Russian Literary Classics in Film," Catharine Nepomnyashchy

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Zoran Živković

Zoran Živković: A Biographical Sketch

by Michael A. Morrison

"Rendezvous in Front of the House," Zoran Živković

"The Metaphysical Fantasias of Zoran Živković," Michael Morrison

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by Zoran Živković

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by Michael A. Morrison

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by Zoran Živković

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"Literary Cairo, A Conversation with Samia Mehrez," Michelle Johnson

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by Michael M. Naydan

Fiction

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by Tania Malyarchuk

"Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction," Mario Bellatin

Poetry

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by Askold Bazhanov

Two Poems, Alistair Noon

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WLT Book Reviews | November 2011

FICTION

Noires blessures
Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Volver a Berlín
Eliah Germani

The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano

The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City
Samia Mehrez, ed.

L'Evaporation de l'oncle
Christine Montalbetti

Vassiliki
Vasso Nikolopoulou

It Eagleton Segel
Arjen Terpstra

The Ghostwriter and The Five Wonders of the Danube
Zoran Živković. Alice Copple-Tošić, tr.

VERSE

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology
Ilan Stavans, ed.

Southern Barbarians and The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009
John Mateer

Doors in a Meadow
Bratislav R. Milanović. Biljana D. Obradović, tr.

Slow Dance
Saleem Peeradina

One with Others
C. D. Wright

Flash Cards
Yu Jian. Wang Ping & Ron Padgett, tr.

MISCELLANEOUS

Politika Poezije: Tranzicija i Pesnički Eksperiment
Dubravka Djurić

A mai történelmi regény
Ágnes Heller

Sex and the River Styx
Edward Hoagland

Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde
Alec G. Hargreaves et al., ed.

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Nov. 2011

Table of Contents

Post-Soviet Literature: Twenty Years After the Fall

Zoran Živković

Interviews

Essays

Fiction

Poetry

In Every Issue

BOOK REVIEWS

WLT Book Reviews | November 2011

FICTION

Noires blessures Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Volver a Berlín Eliah Germani

The Solitude of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano

Vassiliki Vasso Nikolopoulou

It Eagleton Segel Arjen Terpstra

VERSE

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology Ilan Stavans, ed.

One with Others C. D. Wright

MISCELLANEOUS

Politika Poezije: Tranzicija i Pesnički Eksperiment Dubravka Djurić

Sex and the River Styx Edward Hoagland

Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde Alec G. Hargreaves et al., ed.

BACK ISSUE

Nov. 2011

Table of Contents

Noires blessures
Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Volver a Berlín
Eliah Germani

The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano

Vassiliki
Vasso Nikolopoulou

It Eagleton Segel
Arjen Terpstra

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology
Ilan Stavans, ed.

One with Others
C. D. Wright

Politika Poezije: Tranzicija i Pesnički Eksperiment
Dubravka Djurić

Sex and the River Styx
Edward Hoagland

Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde
Alec G. Hargreaves et al., ed.