SPECIAL SECTION
Equatorial Guinean Literature
The Struggle Against State-Promoted Amnesia
The challenge for Equatorial Guinean writers and artists goes far beyond articulating their African-Hispanic identity: their works must also render the implications of a past, a present, and a future defined by local and global intersections.
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Recaredo Silebo Boturu
Bocamandja Performs AYUDAME A CAMINAR from David Shook on Vimeo. Equatorial Guinean author Recaredo Silebo Boturu’s play Nostalgia stars two siblings, brother Mbatua and sister Djibuti, pres...
Table of Contents
Editor's Note, September 2012
by Daniel Simon
Very Short Fiction
ESSAY
The Remarkable Reinvention of Very Short Fiction
by Robert Shapard
INTERVIEW
The Very Short Q&A on Very Short Fiction
"The Vision," Carmen Boullosa
History Will Not Be Made on This Couch
by Hisham Bustani
Two Stories, Alex Epstein
"Skellig," Vanessa Gebbie
"We See Our Mother Go to Bed," Josefine Klougart
"Baku," Sylvia Petter
"Truth," Nora Nadjarian
"Continuity of Hell," Andrés Neuman
The Surprise
by Lili Potpara
"Two Stories," Clemens Setz
Continuity of Hell
by Andrés Neuman
Equatorial Guinean Literature
ESSAY "The Struggle Against State-Promoted Amnesia," Elisa Rizo
POETRY Five Poems, Marcelo Ensema Nsang
POETRY Three Poems, Raquel Ilonbé
POETRY “Intimate History of Humanity” by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, tr. David Shook
INTERVIEW "A Conversation with Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel," Elisa Rizo & David Shook
Interviews
WEB EXCLUSIVE
The Uncertain Territory of MemoryA Conversation with Chilean Writer Roberto Brodsky
by Lisa DiGiovanni, Pedro García-Caro
A Brief Conversation with Caroline Adderson
Fiction
"Waiting," Bewketu Seyoum
Essays
“I Went to Jerusalem, and Returned Delighted and Enriched,” Boualem Sansal
Wheels of Fire: Writers on Bicycles
by Alon Raab
Poetry
Two Poems, Håkan Sandell
Two Poems, Bewketu Seyoum
"Ode to Bicycles," Pablo Neruda
In Every Issue
Editor's Pick: The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine
by Daniel Simon
What to Read Now: Mixed-Genre Literature
by Giannina Braschi
City Profile: Cartagena, Colombia’s “Woodstock of the Mind”
New Books: Childhood
Outposts: Citlaltépetl Refuge House, Mexico City