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World LiteratureToday Alice Walker Poet & Spiritual Teacher REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Aminatta Forna Meena Alexander Haruki Murakami & more SPECIAL SECTION Illness & Literature Anna Badkhen An Anatomy of Lostness VuTran Why Art Should Challenge Us Your passport to great reading VISITING LITERARY VIENNA | ACTIVISM IN THEATER | OPERA FOR GEN Z? Congratulations 2019 NSK Prize winner Margarita Engle! “Not only is Engle writing universal tales of young voices finding their place in the world, her beautiful words convey their dreams and wishes. The recurrent theme of hope prevails.” – Lilliam Rivera who nominated Engle for the NSK Prize Learn more at neustadtprize.org NSK Children’s Literature neustadt prize for Founded in 1968, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas is the major forum in the United States for contemporary Latin American and Caribbean writing in English and English translation; it also covers Canadian writing and the visual and performing arts in the Americas. To browse recent issues, access free content and view subscription options visit: www.tandfonline.com/RREV ApublicationofTaylor&Francisinassociation withTheCityCollegeofNewYork,CCNY Essay 14 Playtime in Vienna by Mandakini Pachauri & Keija Parssinen 26 Five Meditations on Opera by Kevin Simmonds 36 The Puterbaugh Essay An Anatomy of Lostness by Anna Badkhen 20 A Conversation with Alice Walker by Erik Gleibermann Q&A 32 A Conversation with Vu Tran by Michelle Johnson 42 A Conversation with Sergio Chejfec by Graziano Krätli WorldLiteratureToday Alice Walker Poet & Spiritual Teacher REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Aminatta Forna Meena Alexander Haruki Murakami & more SPECIAL SECTION Illness & Literature Anna Badkhen An Anatomy of Lostness VuTran Why Art Should Challenge Us Your passport to great reading VISITING LITERARY VIENNA | ACTIVISM IN THEATER | OPERA FOR GEN Z? NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2018 US $8.95 CAN $11.95 cover feature In Every Issue | 3 Editor’s Note | 5 Notebook | 31 Editor’s Pick | 66 World Literature in Review | 96 Outpost 47 The First Day by Goli Taraghi 53 Health for All by Yoss 57 Our Lady of the Scales by Mélanie Fazi 62 Closer to Where You Will Find Him by Michael Mattes 65 On the Last Day by Xavier Bordes 31 Editor’s Pick Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2018 Crime & Mystery 10 The Staunch Book Prize by Janet Clark Poetry 13 Two Poems by Ivy Alvarez 19 Two Poems by Kedarnath Singh 25 Two Poems by Hwang Tong-gyu 30 Three Poems by Mehrdad Fallah 41 Two Poems by Ashur Etwebi Illness & Literature Q&A with Sergio Chejfec by Graziano Krätli 42 46 on the cover Photo of Alice Walker by Ana Elena Peña 36 An Anatomy of Lostness by Anna Badkhen Contents special section 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 Janet Hong @JanetHong333 Devotees of translation and world literature make the world a better place. @TranslatedWorld @worldlittoday Brook Danielle Lillehaugen @blillehaugen First day of “Language & Empire in #Mesoamerica” at @BrynMawrCollege & we’ll be listening to poetry in Yucatec #Mayan & Huastecan #Nahuatl! Thanks to @worldlittoday for including audio in their publications! #Empire360 #FirstDayOfSchool Yossi Barzilai @yossibarzilai Best two #literary #magazines out there @worldlittoday and @Le_NML #september #septembre Cat Venner @cat_venner Really loving these stories from the Faroe Islands. They are definitely strengthening my wish to visit one day. #TranslationThursday Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl Congratulations to @worldlittoday on the release of their September/ October Issue, this year featuring a unique section on Music & Lit! Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. photo gallery video audio web exclusive Daniel Simon interviews Manuel García Verdecia, Alice Walker’s translator (p. 20) Listen to two poems in Persian by Mehrdad Fallah, plus read two bonus translations (p. 30) Manuel García Verdecia. Photo © Amauris Betancourt WORLDLIT.ORG 3 Have a comment, critique, or...