An aerial view of hydraulic fracturing in progress at Jonah Field in Wyoming. Photo: Bruce Gordon / Ecoflight The growth of hydraulic fracturing has inspired a subgenre of dystopian novels envisi...

A monument featuring singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky in Podgorica, Montenegro. Photo: Nico Trinkhaus Nestled between Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania, Montenegro (“black m...

A group of women stripped naked in broad daylight to protest against the brutality of the Assam Rifles army contingent (July 2004). Braiding together an epic story and India’s ongoing su...

Photo: Shevaun Williams My training as a scholar of Russian literature and culture colors my readings of Dubravka Ugrešić’s work. No matter how hard I try to stop myself from reaching for parallels i...

In 1997 I was offered a job to teach English to adults in Croatia. Of course I had been following the events that had torn Yugoslavia apart between 1991 and 1995; and just as I was learning what I co...

Photo: Flickr.com/people/nex230 Do we need a special issue devoted solely to women writers? Indeed we do. Author and translator Alison Anderson explains why. Do we still need magazi...

Alain Mabanckou. Photo by Shevaun Williams On March 19, 2006, the French daily newspaper Le Monde published an article I wrote entitled “La francophonie, oui; le ghetto, non.”1 My intention...

Alain Mabanckou. Photo by Shevaun Williams. Whether dealing with fashion, music, language, colonialism, contemporary immigration policies, gender relations, masculinity, or globalization...

Made of iron, this scold’s bridle from Belgium dates from the 16th or 17th century. The strut of metal that went into the wearer’s mouth to hold down her tongue has broken off. If there’...

Photo by Kevin Lau The following essay argues for the importance of shifting world literature courses away from “survey” and toward the interrogation of categories of knowledge that typi...

An artist adds color to a building in a Delhi alleyway. Photo by Vikram Singh. The twenty-first century has seen Delhi go from being just another nondescript capital city to a throbbing...

From Le fils du roi, by Eric Lambé (Frémok, 2012) Even in the diverse world of Franco-Belgian independent comics, there is no publisher quite like Frémok. The name itself is a neologism—a co...