WLT Book Reviews | July 2013
FICTION
VERSE
July 2013
“Four-Legged Fictions,” a portfolio devoted to writers and their canine characters, headlines the July 2013 issue of WLT.
Table of Contents
- Editor’s Note
- The Adventure of Sir Arthur’s Home: Development, Preservation, Literary Snobbery, and the World’s Most Famous Detective
IN EVERY ISSUE
- Editor’s Pick: Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
- City Profile: World Lit in the “City of the Big Shoulders”
- What to Read Now: Human Trafficking
- New Books: Mediterranean Noir
- World Music: Seattle Experimental Opera’s Artistic Insurrection
- Outpost: Beyoğlu, Turkey
Four-Legged Fictions
- EXCERPT: “Mexico City” by Jean Rolin
- POETRY: Two Poems by Jacques Roubaud
- “Memory of Safo” by Esther Tusquets
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POETRY: “On Hammock Hill” by Mark Tredinnick
INTERVIEWS
- “Manichean Taxis and Murderous Readers: A Conversation with Rawi Hage” by Ray Taras
POETRY
- Three Ghazals by Shakeel Badayuni, Sha’ir Lakhnavi, and Zack Rogow
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“Ghazal” by Shakeel Badayuni
- “Frédéric Chopin Tweets from the Edinburgh Hogmanay Party” by Ron Butlin
- “A Postponed Poem for New York” by Amjad Nasser
ESSAYS
- “The Invisible City” by Alberto Chimal
- “Is American Literature Parochial?” by Ilan Stavans
FICTION
- “Le Suicide de Monsieur F” by Farzad Salamifar
- “The Cities of the Ordered Chain” by Alberto Chimal
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