Table of Contents, Masthead, and Editor's Note

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World LiteratureToday NEUSTADT LAUREATE Dubravka Ugrešić INTERVIEWS WITH Carolyn Forché & Alan Moore FICTION BY Josefine Klougart & Nick Mulgrew REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS BY Rabih Alameddine, Carmen Boullosa, Elena Ferrante & more Poetry 13 Five Poems by Carolyn Forché 23 Invisible War by Gábor Schein 27 Two Poems by Hagit Grossman 38 Three Poems by Shahilla Shariff Crime & Mystery 24 The Faces of Maigret by J. Madison Davis Essay 44 Strangers in the Country of the Poet by Julia Fiedorczuk Part of the Puterbaugh Essay Series WorldLiteratureToday Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 43 Editor’s Pick | 66 World Literature in Review | 96 Outpost JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2017 28 38 Interviews 10 A Conversation with Carolyn Forché by Chard deNiord 28 A Conversation with Alan Moore by Rob Vollmar Fiction 20 Cosmo Girl by Nadia Villafuerte 35 Three Flash Fictions by Olga Zilberbourg 41 FOR SALE: Set of secondhand imported Momo mags for toyota corolla (mint condition), bargain by Nick Mulgrew 53 Of Darkness (two excerpts) by Josefine Klougart cover feature 56 Neustadt Prize Laureate Dubravka Ugrešić 58 A Girl in Litland by Dubravka Ugrešić 61 Dubravka Ugrešić and Contemporary European Literature by Alison Anderson 64 The American Nobel Oklahoma’s Neustadt Prize by Chad W. Post about the cover Dubravka Ugrešić photographed by Shevaun Williams. 35 moore photo : joe brown ronen photo : gadi dagon iduma photo : dawit l . petros worldliteraturetoday.org Web Exclusive Visit our website for exclusive content including original audio recordings, photo galleries, blog posts, and more. The full text of Carolyn Forché’s three-part interview (page 10) Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. web exclusive photo gallery audio video Julie Ann Ward’s interview with Nadia Villafuerte (page 20) Hagit Grossman’s video recording of a Hebrew poem (page 27) Web Exclusive 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 On the WLT Blog Two Poems from Israel, Illustrated by Isis Olivier by Diti Ronen “The act of drawing the endless moment of the falling, inspired by the poem, is actually done with the help of dead birds that [Isis] finds on her way or at her doorstep, unexpectedly.”—Diti Ronen “In History to My Barest Marrows”: A Conversation Between Yinka Elujoba and Emmanuel Iduma “Isn’t the essay a territory—and you’ll find this if you go back to Montaigne— in which storytelling and metaphysics can tread? I’m happy to approach fiction as an essayist.”—Emmanuel Iduma Read more at worldliteraturetoday.org/blog Join the conversation Join our community of readers and writers on Twitter. Use the hashtag #IReadWLT and tell us about your favorite features from this issue. Poets & Writers @poetswritersinc #DailyNews: For the first time in the publication’s history, @worldlittoday devotes issue solely to women writers. PEN America @PENamerican Women writers are largely underrepresented in #translation . Alison Anderson in @worldlittoday on making women heard. Heide Brandes @HeideWrite I’m geeking out over @worldlittoday. It’s a tad intimidating to write a feature about a magazine that features the world’s best writers! Find us on flickr flickr.com/wltonline WORLDLIT.ORG 3 Have a comment, critique, or inspiration you’d like to share? Write to us on Facebook, tweet us @worldlittoday, or email the editor in chief at dsimon@ou.edu. editor’s note photo : alba simon  As I write this note in the waning days of November 2016, a shrill cacophony of voices predominates. We’re still sorting through the implications of the US presidential election, and in my lifetime, I’ve never felt such personal or collective anxiety about what the future holds. In her career-spanning interview in the current issue of WLT (an excerpt of which begins on page 10), Carolyn Forché recalls her sense of looking through a “shattered kaleidoscope” while working on the poems that would eventually be published as The Angel of History (1994): “I felt my consciousness fragment during that time, and in the following years I wondered whether...