WLT Book Reviews | March 2015

FICTION

VERSE

MISCELLANEOUS

NOTA BENES

Nota Benes, March 2015

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BACK ISSUE

Writing Beyond Iran: Four Voices in Exile

Editor’s Note
ESSAY: “Writing Beyond Iran: Reinvention and the Exilic Iranian Writer,” by Persis Karim
WEB EXCLUSIVE CREATIVE NONFICTION: “Transmutations of / by Language,” by Raha Namy
WEB EXCLUSIVE FICTION: “The Shipwrecked,” by Moniru Ravanipour
WEB EXCLUSIVE AUDIO POETRY: “Reborn,” by Forugh Farrokhzad
WEB EXCLUSIVE AUDIO POETRY: “Another Birth,” by Forough Farrokhzad
INTERVIEW: “A Cartoonist’s Metamorphosis: An Interview with Mana Neyestani,” by Persis Karim
INTERVIEW: “Already in Exile” A Conversation with Moniro Ravanipour, by Omid Fallahazad
EXCERPT: “The Cradle of the Beast” (an excerpt), by Omid Fallahazad
WEB EXCLUSIVE AUDIO POETRY: Two Poems from “Standing on Earth,” by Mohsen Emadi
WEB EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Iranian Poet Mohsen Emadi,” by Persis Karim
POETRY: Six Poems from “Standing on Earth,” by Mohsen Emadi

ESSAYS

WEB EXCLUSIVE “Overnight, 130,000 People Flee Cuba for the United States and Defeat Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton,” by Fernando Morais
“Olivier Schrauwen and the Physiognomy of Style,” by Bill Kartalopoulos
“The Swan Song of a Departing People,” by Galsan Tschinag
“Haitian Literature as a Model for World Literature,” by Michael W. Merriam
“The Politics of Crime: South Africa’s New Socially Conscious Genre,” by J. L. Powers