Photo: Daniel Boud
This is my devotion, then: to walk sometimes
with the dog through the sclerophyll
Cathedral of the morning. To let myself
Off my lead…
COVER FEATURE
Four-Legged Fictions
“Four-Legged Fictions,” a portfolio devoted to writers and their canine characters, headlines the July 2013 issue of WLT, featuring poetry and fiction from Australia, France, and Spain.
featuring
Esther Tusquets
Mark Tredinnick
Jean Rolin
Jacques Roubaud
- Translator’s note: Roubaud wrote the first poem, “À cinq heures du soir” (itself a nod to Lorca’s famous “La cogida y la muerte”), about Warren Motte’s dog Lucy, who shared with her owner a g…
Table of Contents
In Every Issue
City Profile: World Lit in the “City of the Big Shoulders”
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New Books: Mediterranean Noir
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Outpost: Beyoğlu, Turkey
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The Adventure of Sir Arthur’s Home: Development, Preservation, Literary Snobbery, and the World’s Most Famous Detective
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Four-Legged Fictions
EXCERPT “Mexico City” by Jean Rolin
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“Memory of Safo” by Esther Tusquets
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POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
On Hammock Hill
POETRY
Two Poems by Jacques Roubaud
INTERVIEWS
“Manichean Taxis and Murderous Readers: A Conversation with Rawi Hage” by Ray Taras
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Poetry
Three Ghazals by Shakeel Badayuni, Sha’ir Lakhnavi, and Zack Rogow
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“Frédéric Chopin Tweets from the Edinburgh Hogmanay Party” by Ron Butlin
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WEB EXCLUSIVE
Ghazal
ESSAYS
“The Invisible City” by Alberto Chimal
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Fiction
“Le Suicide de Monsieur F” by Farzad Salamifar
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