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Home | Book Reviews | March 2013

WLT Book Reviews | March 2013


FICTION

  • This Is How You Lose Her
    Junot Díaz

  • God’s Horse and The Atheists’ School
    Wilhelm Dichter. Madeline G. Levine, tr.

  • Le terroriste noir
    Tierno Monénembo

  • Mudwoman
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • Mitrova Amerika
    Petar Sarić

  • Maidenhair
    Mikhail Shishkin. Marian Schwartz, tr.

  • The Whispering Muse
    Sjón. Victoria Cribb, tr.

  • Edge
    Koji Suzuki. Camellia Nieh & Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, tr.

  • The Finno-Ugrian Vampire
    Noémi Szécsi. Peter Sherwood, tr.

  • The Magic of Saida
    M. G. Vassanji

  • Arrecife
    Juan Villoro

  • The Method
    Juli Zeh. Sally-Ann Spencer, tr.


VERSE

  • Trying to Say Goodbye
    Adil Jussawalla

  • The Rule of Barbarism
    Abdellatif Laâbi. André Naffis-Sahely, tr.

  • Winter Sun
    Shi Zhi. Jonathan Stalling, tr.

  • Writers Writing Dying
    C. K. Williams


MISCELLANEOUS

  • There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
    Chinua Achebe

  • The Place We Live: A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009
    Robert Adams

  • Creative Constraints: Translation and Authorship
    Rita Wilson & Leah Gerber, ed.

  • Writings from the Sand. Vol. 1 of Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt
    Isabelle Eberhardt. Marie-Odile Delacour & Jean-Rene Huleu, ed.

  • The Parchment of Kashmir: History, Society, and Polity
    Nyla Ali Khan, ed.

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BACK ISSUE

March 2013

“Taking Pictures, Telling Stories,” a portfolio devoted to Photography and Literature, headlines the March 2013 double issue of WLT.

Table of Contents

  • Editor’s Note

Photography: Taking Pictures, Telling Stories

  • INTRO: “Photography: Taking Pictures, Telling Stories,” by Yousef Khanfar
  • WEB EXCLUSIVE READING LIST: “My Photography Bookshelf” by Yousef Khanfar
  • ESSAY/GALLERY: “Tibet: Culture on the Edge” by Phil Borges

IN EVERY ISSUE

  • Editor’s Pick: 18% Gray by Zachary Karabashliev
  • What to Read Now: Financial Crisis Fiction
  • Recent Mysteries in Translation
  • New Books: Dark Days
  • City Profile: Stockholm, Sweden
  • World Music: Contemporary Inuit Music from Arctic Canada
  • Outpost: Prison Poetry in Sighet, Romania

ESSAYS

  • ”The Missing Picture” by Kamila Shamsie
  • “The Origins of Smudges” by Adnan Mahmutović
  • “A Fair Land and Wide” by Mark Budman

INTERVIEWS

  • ”Travels in History and Geography: An Interview with William Dalrymple,” Rita Joshi

POETRY

  • Two Poems by André Naffis-Sahely

BOOK REVIEWS

  • View all reviews in this issue

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