WLT Book Reviews | January 2012

• EDITOR'S NOTE

NSK Neustadt Prize Laureate Virginia Euwer Wolff

• ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: [Excerpt] "A Case of Time-Release Insight: The 2011 NSK Prize Lecture," Virginia Euwer Wolff
• ESSAY: "The Courage to Be Compassionate: A Tribute to Virginia Euwer Wolff," Suzanne Fisher Staples
• WEB EXCLUSIVE READING LIST: "Children's Literature Favorites" by featured authors from the January issue of WLT

INTERVIEWS

• WEB EXCLUSIVE "Poetic Journeys: A Conversation with Nathalie Handal," Kaitlin Bankston
• "A Brief Conversation with Laleh Khadivi"
• "Eva Stachniak," Ania Spyra

ESSAYS

• "Post-3/11 Literature: Two Writers from Fukushima" Takeshi Kimoto
• "The Single, Shared Text? Translation and World Literature," Valerie Henitiuk
• "Burmese Poetry: Tectonic Shifts," James Byrne
• "The State of Zapotec Poetry: Can Poetry Save an Endangered Culture?," Clare Sullivan
• WEB EXCLUSIVE "Poetry Is Liberty: The Macondo Writers’ Workshop in Mexico," Wendy Call

READING LISTS

• WEB EXCLUSIVE WLT's Apocalypse Reading List
• WEB EXCLUSIVE 10 Top Japanese Authors of the Past Decade (2000–2010)

FICTION

• WEB EXCLUSIVE "In the Palace of the Dragon King," Hiromi Kawakami
• "Past-Bitterness-Recalling and Present-Sweetness-Realizing Meal," Qiu Xiaolong

POETRY

• WEB EXCLUSIVE Four Poems, Nathalie Handal [audio and video]
• WEB EXCLUSIVE Seven Poems, Feliciano Sánchez Chan
• WEB EXCLUSIVE Zapotec Poetry: Bilingual recordings
• WEB EXCLUSIVE Photo Gallery: Zapotec Artwork
• "Zodiac 9," Moikom Zeqo
• Six Burmese Poets

IN EVERY ISSUE

• LETTERS/EDITOR'S PICK
• WHAT TO READ NOW: Sri Lanka
• CITY PROFILE: Hargeisa, Somalia
• INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY: "He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Rise of the Police Procedural," J. Madison Davis
• OUTPOST: Kesennuma, Japan

2012 Neustadt Prize Laureate Rohinton Mistry

• WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Rohinton Mistry’s Neustadt Prize Acceptance Speech