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WorldLiteratureToday Essays 10 Olivier Schrauwen and the Physiognomy of Style by Bill Kartalopoulos 20 The Swan Song of a Departing People by Galsan Tschinag 26 Haitian Literature as a Model for World Literature by Michael W. Merriam 30 The Politics of Crime South Africa’s New Socially Conscious Genre by J. L. Powers Fiction 12 Bacon’s Chicken by George Zebrowski Crime & Mystery 16 A Mind for Murder The Passing of P. D. James by J. Madison Davis Poetry 17 What Would You Call It? by Linda Hogan 19 Three Poems by Lan Lan 29 Two Poems by Susan Rich Q&A 22 Haitian Is My Language” A Conversation with Frankétienne by Michael W. Merriam cover feature 34 Writing Beyond Iran Four Voices in Exile Featuring Mana Neyestani – Interview Mohsen Emadi – Poetry Omid Fallahazad – Fiction Moniro Ravanipour – Interview Guest-edited by Persis Karim about the cover This untitled image is part of a series entitled “Listen” by Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer Newsha Tavakolian. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and exhibits . She is the current laureate of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award. Learn more at newshatavakolian.com. Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 53 Editor’s Pick | 54 World Literature in Review | 80 Outpost MARCH – APRIL 2015 17 30 48 “ flickr photos : ( top ) jen rickard blair ( bottom ) vanessa rudloff / shevaun williams photography worldliteraturetoday.org Web Exclusive Join the WLT community Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, and Flickr to share ideas, view photos, and read book reviews. Facebook facebook.com/ worldlittoday Twitter @worldlittoday Pinterest @worldlit GoodReads goodreads.com/ worldlittoday Visit worldliteraturetoday.org for exclusive content you won’t want to miss, including web exclusives, photo galleries, blog posts, and much more. Bilingual audio poems by Mohsen Emadi, plus his interview with Persis Karim @OnlineCrsLady THANKS again for sharing so much great stuff, perfect for my classes. @worldlittoday is best social I know at OU! @wwborders We love these videos of live Ethiopian poetry performances in Addis Ababa via @worldlittoday #Ethiopia @unpoetaloco Love @worldlittoday’s new look. Love even more being part of the first issue with the new design. @tweedsmag Love works in translation as much as we do? @worldlittoday has a list of the best 75 from 2014! #LUNCHLIT @PaulMMCooper Thanks to @wwborders, @worldlittoday and @asymptotejrnl for bringing brilliant world #literature updates to my feed in 2014! @riffle You can’t go wrong with these picks from @worldlittoday:“2014 Holiday Gift Guide: A Book for Every Bibliophile” @samarov Happy to have contributed a bit of art & writing about @Nelson_Algren for January’s @worldlittoday @bethbachmann Rd & you might not look at Twitter’s bird the same way again: @worldlittoday ”Protest, Poetry, & Twitter’s White Bird” @commapress Great interview with Jonathan Wright, translator of Hassan Blasim, to start the new year! Tweets Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online at worldliteraturetoday.org. web exclusive photo gallery audio video Web Exclusive Find us on Flickr flickr.com/wltonline An excerpt from Fernando Morais’s The Last Soldiers of the Cold War, forthcoming from Verso Books A new translation of Forough Farrokhzad’s poem“Another Birth,” plus a bilingual recording “Transmutations of/by Language,”an essay by Iranian writer Raha Namy Web Exclusive Web Exclusive ‫دپت‬ ‫و‬ ‫تعاس‬ ‫یمن‬‫دپت‬. ‫یاش‬‫د‬ ‫نیمه‬ ‫سایق‬ ‫هداس‬ ‫گیم‬‫تف‬ ‫ارچ‬ ‫بود‬‫هرا‬ ‫هب‬ ‫تعاس‬ ‫هاگن‬ ‫یدرک‬. Have a comment, critique, or inspiration you’d like to share? Let us hear from you via the feedback link on the WLT website, Tweet us @worldlittoday, or email the editor in chief at dsimon@ou.edu. WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 3 editor’s note IN A RECENT OP-ED for Mother Jones, Ted Genoways laments the declining cultural influence of university -sponsored literary magazines, many of which have been faced with dwindling readerships—and forced budget cuts—since the recession (“The Death of Fiction?” Jan. 2010). Tracing the rise and fall of lit mags during the postwar era, Genoways lays part of the blame on universities for churning out writers in MFA mills but failing to cultivate a concomitant culture of reading. Most of his spleen, however, is directed at American writers themselves, who “seem to have forgotten how to write about big issues,” he contends, “as if giving two shits about the world has gotten...