WLT Book Reviews | January 2013

FICTION

VERSE

MISCELLANEOUS

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by Daniel Simon

Alfred Hitchcock, Creator and Creation Fictionalizing the “Master of Suspense”

2012 Neustadt Prize Laureate Rohinton Mistry

SPEECH “The Road from There to Here,” Rohinton Mistry

ESSAY

by Samrat Upadhyay

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SUMMARY

by Kevin Pickard

ESSAY “Lend Me Your Light,” Rohinton Mistry and the Art of Storytelling, Beena Kamlani

ESSAY Painting the Deeply Personal on Vast Political Landscapes: Rohinton Mistry’s India, Sudha Bhuchar

5 Poetry Trails

INTRO “Finding Poetry Under the Open Sky,” Pattiann Rogers

“The William Stafford Path Lake Oswego, Oregon,” Kim Stafford

“Poetry Trail in Greenway Meadows Princeton, New Jersey,” Scott McVay

“The Milwaukee County Zoo Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” Pattiann Rogers

“Herman Hill Park Water Center Wichita, Kansas,” Albert Goldbarth

“Oaken Transformations Brighton, Michigan,” Susan Blackwell Ramsey

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Essays

“The Weather of Who We Are An Intimate Essay on the Weather, the Self, and Australianness,” Mark Tredinnick

“The Immediacy of Influence,” Adam Z. Levy

“A New Refuge for Haitian Writers,” Deji Olukotun

Poetry

by Mark Tredinnick

by Lauren Camp

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by Lauren Camp

Fiction

“The Speech Therapist,” Cyril Dabydeen

by Peter Orner

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by Kim Kyŏnguk

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by Daniel Simon

City Profile: Perth, Australia—Intensely Beautiful, Often Overlooked

by Tobias Hecht

New Books: Journeys

Outpost: A City Lined with Literature—Porto, Portugal

WLT Book Reviews | January 2013

FICTION

Kind of Kin
Rilla Askew

L’empreinte à Crusoé
Patrick Chamoiseau

When the Night
Cristina Comencini. Marina Harss, tr.

The Song of Synth and Absinth
Sébastien Doubinsky

The Future Is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction
Diego Trelles Paz, ed. Janet Hendrickson, tr.

Blue
Pat Grant

The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
Shehan Karunatilaka

The House of Jasmine
Ibrahim Abdel Meguid. Noha Radwan, tr.

Three Strong Women
Marie NDiaye. John Fletcher, tr.

Barbe bleue
Amélie Nothomb

Friends of Mine
Ángela Pradelli. Andrea G. Labinger, tr.

Sie / Er
Botho Strauss

An Arab Melancholia
Abdellah Taïa. Frank Stock, tr.

VERSE

The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass
Harry Clifton

Cœurs, comme livres d’amour
Hélène Dorion

Pesme iz Bolesti i Zdravlja
Enes Halilović

A Thousand Mornings
Mary Oliver

Samle fersen
D. A. Tamminga. Tineke Steenmeijer & Jelle Krol, ed.

MISCELLANEOUS

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel

The Secret of Evil
Roberto Bolaño. Chris Andrews & Natasha Wimmer, tr.

Das Feuer im Spiegel
Jurij Koch

The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language
Norman Manea

Stealing History
Gerald Stern

La civilización del espectáculo
Mario Vargas Llosa