Photo by crowdive/FlickrBased on a legend from eighteenth-century Bengal, Shokhi Rongomala is Shaheen Akhtar’s third novel. The book follows Rongomala, a beautiful and c…
COVER FEATURE
Bangladesh on the World Stage
Featuring K. Anis Ahmed, Tahmima Anam, Maria Chaudhuri, Farah Ghuznavi, Sudipta Chakma Mikado, and Mahmud Rahman
Guest- edited by David Shook
- By David ShookBeneath the twin pillars of Bangla-language poets Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam—icons so revered that enormous statues of twin doves, in their honor, adorn the streets of Dhaka—and owing t…
Table of Contents
Bangladesh on the World Stage
INTERVIEW “Opening Bangladesh to the World: A Conversation with Four Contemporary Writers” by David Shook
EXCERPT The World in My Hands by K. Anis Ahmed
POETRY Two Poems from the Chakma by Sudipta Chakma Mikado
MEMOIR “The Three Stages of Separation” by Maria Chaudhuri
by David Shook
FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
Beloved Rongomala (an excerpt)
by Shaheen Akhtar
The Global South
ESSAY “Breaking Out of the Prison House of Hierarchy” by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
ESSAY “A Globalectical Imagination” by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Essays
“Anne Frank Abroad: The Emergence of World Atrocity Literature” by Katherine Wilson
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Writing in Cuba in the Twenty-first Century
by Leonardo Padura
Poetry
Two Poems by Anne Marie Macari
“A Soul’s Cartography” by Roberto Castillo Udiarte tr. Anthony Seidman
AUDIO WEB EXCLUSIVE
“Lizard Tail Blues” by Roberto Castillo Udiarte
by Roberto Castillo Udiarte
AUDIO WEB EXCLUSIVE
“Placing Everything on the Line” (Read in Serbian and English)
by Zvonko Karanović
Fiction
“Empty But for Darwin” by Tania Hershman
“Diamond Anniversary” by Leonardo Padura
WEB EXCLUSIVE
The Pendulous Death of Raimundo Manzanero
by Leonardo Padura
Interviews
Writing Cuba from Within: A Conversation with Leonardo Padura
“A Quiet Author’s Written Rebellion: An Interview with Ananda Devi” by Dinah Assouline Stillman
by Biljana D. Obradović
In Every Issue
City Profile: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
New Books: Put It in a Letter
by Marla Johnson
by David Henderson
More Talent Than Success: The Enigma of the Underappreciated Author
by Daniel Simon