Table of Contents, Masthead, and Editor's Note

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World LiteratureToday Writing as Inspired Resistance ALSO FEATURING Kapka Kassabova’s Border Ghosts The Alchemized Desire of Li-Young Lee Dunya Mikhail’s Lanterns of Light WORDS MATTER Your passport to great reading REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS BY Elif Shafak, Mahi Binebine, Mireille Gansel & more MAPUCHE POET Liliana Ancalao Poetry 17 God Is Burning by Li-Young Lee 20 Two Poems by Fady Joudah & Golan Haji 27 Nausis by Eleni Kefala 34 Three Poems by Martín Gambarotta 44 Two Poems by Liu Xia The Puterbaugh Essay 35 Border Ghosts by Kapka Kassabova WorldLiteratureToday Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 27 Editor’s Pick | 64 World Literature in Review | 96 Outpost JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2018 22 Crime & Mystery 10 Those Relentless Women Reporters by J. Madison Davis Q&A 13 A Conversation with Li-Young Lee by Jennifer Wong 22 A Conversation with Eleni Kefala by Adam Goldwyn 40 A Conversation with Jia Pingwa by Min Yang 28 Fiction 18 Equations of State by Kristine Ong Muslim 28 In Nocere by Laura Legge 45 The Pillar of Salt by Zsuzsa Takács Essay 48 The Spring by Dunya Mikhail cover feature 53 Words Matter: Writing as Inspired Resistance featuring Maureen Freely, Iossif Ventura, Liliana Ancalao, and Anna Maria Carpi WorldLiterature Today Writing as Inspired Resistance ALSO FEATURING Kapka Kassabova’s Border Ghosts The Alchemized Desire of Li-Young Lee Dunya Mikhail’s Lanterns of Light WORDS MATTER Your passport to great reading REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS BY Elif Shafak, Mahi Binebine, Mireille Gansel & more MAPUCHE POET Liliana Ancalao about the cover Photo of Liliana Ancalao by Morena Aimé Martínez Ninotchka on My Mind by Dubravka Ugrešić According to Yevgeny Zamyatin’s famous words,‘true literature’ can exist only where it is created by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.” Political Misinformation, Statelessness, and Disaster Recovery: A Conversation with Malka Older by Conrad Young Disasters are often a timecompressed , media-intense version of normal governance: the same inequalities, corruption, challenges, legitimate efforts, but faster and more visible.” photo : allana taranto photo : deusxflorida / flickr What’s on worldlit.org Web Exclusive Visit our website for exclusive content including original audio recordings, photo galleries, blog posts, and more. Li-Young Lee reads his poem “God Is Burning”(p. 17) Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. web exclusive photo gallery audio video Liliana Ancalao reads her poems in Mapuzungun (p. 59) An interview with Chicana poet Emmy Pérez 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 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. Katie Bowler Young @kebowler “Tolerance should [only be] a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition”– a reminder from #Goethe via @worldlittoday Namrata Poddar @poddar_namrata “It is our job & our duty to make sure we get to write our own story” Excellent essay @aminattaforna @worldlittoday The Mantle @TheMantle YEEAAAAHHHH!! @YahiaLababidi throws down on the latest issue of @worldlittoday as guest editor. Congrats! Can’t wait to dig in :) Find us on flickr flickr.com/wltonline “ Read more at worldlit.org/blog “ WORLDLIT.ORG 3 Have a comment, critique, or inspiration you’d like to share? Write to us on Facebook, reach out on Twitter @worldlittoday, or email the editor in chief (dsimon@ou.edu). editor’s note photo : alba simon  Just this morning, as I began drafting my note for the current issue, Dictionary.com named complicit as its word of the year for 2017. “Complicit,” write the editors, “has sprung up in conversations about those who speak out against powerful figures in institutions, and those who stay silent.” Among the many who spoke out against complicity this past year, the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities made headlines in August when its remaining commissioners resigned en masse to protest President Trump’s “refusal to quickly and unequivocally condemn” the violent “Unite the Right” rally, which had...