WLT Book Reviews | May 2012

• EDITOR'S NOTE

Women Writing German Today

• INTERVIEW: "Writing from the Gaps: A Conversation with Julia Franck," Alexandra M. Hill
• EXCERPT: Back to Back, Julia Franck
• ESSAY: "Sex, Death, and Motherhood in the Eurozone," Hester Baer

READING LISTS

• WEB EXCLUSIVE For Further Reading: Contemporary German Literature

Culture and Conflict

• ESSAY: "A Day That Lingers with Us Still: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here," Persis M. Karim
• WEB EXCLUSIVE PHOTO GALLERY: Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides
• ESSAY: "Sense and Censorship in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Blake Atwood
• INTERVIEW: "Internal and External Borders: A Conversation with Raja Shehadeh," Persis Karim
• WEB EXCLUSIVE ESSAY: "No Ordinary Place: Writers and Writing in Occupied Palestine," Rima Najjar Merriman
• WEB EXCLUSIVE READING LIST: For Further Reading: Culture and Conflict

INTERVIEWS

• "A Brief Conversation with Anna Winger"
• "A Conversation with Geoffrey Philp," Erika J. Waters
• "Finally, Ali Podrimja Spoke” A Conversation, Adam J. Goldwyn & Rineta Hoxha

ESSAYS

• "London and the Grotesque," Tessa Ditner (with photo gallery)
• "An American in Berlin," Claire Messud
• “An American in Berlin,” Claire Messud

FICTION

• "The White Bridge," Rezo Gabriadze

POETRY

• Four Poems, Aicha Bassry
• WEB EXCLUSIVE Bilingual recordings: Eight Poems, Aicha Bassry
• "Leaving Home," Pia Tafdrup
• Three Poems, Ali Podrimja
• WEB EXCLUSIVE Bilingual Recordings, A Soul at Play by Shizue Ogawa
• WEB EXCLUSIVE Two Poems, Geoffrey Philp

IN EVERY ISSUE

• International Crime & Mystery: A Conversation with Virginie Brac, J. Madison Davis
• City Profile: Mumbai
• What to Read Now: Syria
• New Books: Middle Eastern Memoirs
• Outpost: Cape Town
• Editor's Choice: The Life of Rebecca Jones, Angharad Price