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World LiteratureToday REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Ada Limón Mathias Énard OlgaTokarczuk Adam Zagajewski & more Achy Obejas On Danticat’s Fierce Forgiveness André Naffis-Sahely Seeks Salvation on the Shores of Morocco Emeka Ogboh Explores Migration Through Food NEUSTADT PRIZE LAUREATE Edwidge Danticat On Freedom, Salt, Geography, and Storytelling Your passport to great reading 4 FABULIST FLASH FICTIONS | WRITING SINGAPORE | A GOLDEN AGE OF TV CRIME Hallgrímur Helgason Edward Burtynsky Lisa Chen Ed Pavlić Han Yujoo Kyo Maclear C.D. Wright Lisa Moore order yours at brickmag.com One of my favourite magazines. — Ben Lerner in brick 102 One of my favourite magazines. A L I T E R A R Y J O U R N A L EDWARD BURTYNSKY EDEN ROBINSON KYO MACLEAR BILLY-RAY BELCOURT HIROMI GOTO JENNIFER BAICHWAL HAN YUJOO HALLGRÍMUR HELGASON LISA MOORE PHOEBE WANG LORNA CROZIER C.D. WRIGHT 102 b r i c k 1 0 2 Q&A 14 The Aesthetics of the City: Youssouf Amine Elalamy by Nisrine Slitine El Mghari 34 Writing Singapore: Grace Chia by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming & Jason Eng Hun Lee 48 Food and Migration: Artist Emeka Ogboh (Recipe Included) by Michelle Johnson 50 Critiquing Colonialism from Within: Helen Johnson & John Kinsella by Michelle Johnson Fiction 20 If You’d Only Look by Sonya Chyu 40 Four Fabulist Fables by Pierre Bettencourt 42 Auntie Nabat’s Bread by Nariman Hasanzade 44 The Talus of Madame Liken by Asja Bakić WorldLiteratureToday REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Ada Limón Mathias Énard OlgaTokarczuk Adam Zagajewski & more Achy Obejas On Danticat’s Fierce Forgiveness André Naffis-Sahely Seeks Salvation on the Shores of Morocco Emeka Ogboh Explores Migration Through Food NEUSTADT PRIZE LAUREATE Edwidge Danticat On Freedom, Salt, Geography, and Storytelling Your passport to great reading 4 FABULIST FLASH FICTIONS | WRITING SINGAPORE | A GOLDEN AGE OF TV CRIME In Every Issue | 3 Editor’s Note | 5 Notebook | 47 Editor’s Pick | 75 Books in Review | 112 Outpost 59 All Geography Is Within Me by Edwidge Danticat 66 A Tribute to Danticat by Achy Obejas 68 A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat by Erik Gleibermann Essays 28 Seeking Salvation on the Shores of Morocco by André Naffis-Sahely 54 Weaving a Creole Patrimony by Patrick Chamoiseau WINTER 2019 Crime & Mystery 10 Our “Golden Age” of TV Crime Drama by J. Madison Davis Poetry 13 Two Poems by Namrata Verghese 19 Two Poems by Sharmistha Mohanty 27 Three Poems by Khal Torabully 33 Five Poems by Ennio Moltedo 39 Four Poems by Blanca Garnica Neustadt Prize Laureate Edwidge Danticat 58 cover feature on the cover Photo of Edwidge Danticat by Shevaun Williams 20 50 Contents What’s on worldlit.org Visit our website for fresh content including audio, video, web-exclusive stories, reading lists, and more. Connect with WLT online Find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Goodreads, Flickr, and Pinterest to share ideas, view photos, watch video, discover book reviews, and more. Instagram Favorites Follow @worldlittoday on Instagram for literary inspiration. Join the Conversation Use the hashtag #IReadWLT on Twitter to share your opinions about the current issue of the magazine! Or visit worldlit.org/contact to write a letter to the editor. Digital Extras Suzanne Kamata @shikokusue Grateful to @worldlittoday for the intro to Yu Xiuhua, a Chinese subsistence farmer with cerebral palsy who is a poet. I hope someone is working on a book-length translation of her work! #IReadWLT #ownvoices #poetry George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco Things I miss about @UofOklahoma: my @worldlittoday and @LatAmLitToday families, the @NeustadtPrize and #Puterbaugh festivals, and #TierraTinta. Sydney Solis @RisingSolis Really enjoyed reading the latest issue on the plane! Thank you! You’re my favorite literature magazine. MaryEHogarth @MaryEHogarth Talking to students about magazines from a business perspective is always a treat for me. So thank you magazine students @UofOklahoma for being such a great audience—and to Daniel Simon @worldlittoday for inviting me. #highered #KnowledgeExchange D. Nandi Odhiambo @nandi_odhiambo I was really happy to see this good review by Shazia Hafiz Ramzi of Smells Like Stars in World Literature Today. I greatly appreciate her considered and thoughtful reading of the novel. Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. photo gallery video audio...