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Music & Lit Lusterlit’s musical alchemy • Leontyne Price Jazz poetry • rock operas • soca fugues A visit to Prince’s Minneapolis Amelia Curran & more REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Cixin Liu Maxim Amelin Porochista Khakpour & more World LiteratureToday Your passport to great reading RUSSIAN POETRY FROM THE ASHES OF EMPIRE | LILLIAM RIVERA’S Y.A. READS | FAROE ISLANDS FICTIONS NEUSTADT LIT FEST International Books & Culture Oct. 9–11, 2018 featuring Neustadt Prize Winner Edwidge Danticat Check out the festival highlights on page 4 or view the full schedule of events at neustadtfestival.org The University of Oklahoma • Norman “Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously.” – Edwidge Danticat Sponsored by World Literature Today, the Neustadt Family, and the University of Oklahoma Announcing the AmericAn LiterAry trAnsLAtors AssociAtion LongLists for the 2018 nAtionAL trAnsLAtion AwArds in Poetry And Prose! Find out more about the titles, judges, and awards at www.LiterArytrAnsLAtors.wordPress.com! And see this year’s winners crowned at ALTA41: Performance, Props, and Platforms in Bloomington, IN, October 31 November 3, 2018! Learn more about the conference and register at www.LiterArytrAnsLAtors.org. Poetry The Book of DisquieT, by Fernando Pessoa translated by Margaret Jull Costa DirecTions for use, by Ana Ristovic translated by Steven Teref and Maja Teref hackers, by Aase Berg translated by Johannes Göransson i rememBer nighTfall, by Marosa di Giorgio translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas if i Were a suiciDe BomBer, by Per Aage Brandt translated by Thom Satterlee magneTic PoinT: selecTeD Poems, by Ryszard Krynicki translated by Clare Cavanagh my lai, by Carmen Berenguer translated by Liz Henry The oDyssey, by Homer translated by Emily Wilson oxygen: selecTeD Poems, by Julia Fiedorczuk translated by Bill Johnston sonic Peace, by Kiriu Minashita translated by Spencer Thurlow and Eric Hyett sPiral sTaircase: collecTeD Poems, by Hirato Renkichi translated by Sho Sugita ThirD-millennium hearT, by Ursula Andkjær Olsen translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen Prose affecTions, by Rodrigo Hasbún translated by Sophie Hughes augusT, by Romina Paula translated by Jennifer Croft comPass, by Mathias Énard translated by Charlotte Mandell DanDelions, by Yasunari Kawabata translated by Michael Emmerich ghachar ghochar, by Vivek Shanbhag translated by Srinath Perur The imPossiBle fairy Tale, by Han Yujoo translated by Janet Hong The invenTeD ParT, by Rodrigo Fresán translated by Will Vanderhyden iTalian chronicles, by Stendhal translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie moving The Palace, by Charif Majdalani translated by Edward Gauvin olD renDering PlanT, by Wolfgang Hilbig translated by Isabel Fargo Cole sWalloWing mercury, by Wioletta Greg translated by Eliza Marciniak The WorlD goes on, by László Krasznahorkai translated by George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, and John Batki Fiction 14 Summer with Halla by Sólrún Michelsen 20 Black Cadillac by Milena Solot 26 Jóhanna Mørk by Jóanes Nielsen Essay 32 The Puterbaugh Essay In the Den of the Voice by Philip Metres Music & Lit Lusterlit’s musical alchemy • Leontyne Price Jazz poetry • rock operas • soca fugues A visit to Prince’s Minneapolis Amelia Curran & more REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Cixin Liu Max Ritvo Porochista Khakpour & more WorldLiteratureToday Your passport to great reading RUSSIAN POETRY FROM THE ASHES OF EMPIRE | LILLIAM RIVERA’S Y.A. READS | FAROE ISLANDS FICTIONS In Every Issue | 3 Editor’s Note | 5 Notebook | 25 Editor’s Pick | 66 World Literature in Review | 96 Outpost 40 A Conversation with Lusterlit’s Susan Hwang & Charlie Nieland by Michelle Johnson 43 Music & Lit Reading List by Michelle Johnson 44 Four Poems by Samantha Thornhill 47 Trio by Jeanne Farewell 52 Auscultate by Monchoachi 54 The Rehearsal by Eric Ellingsen 60 “An aria is a weather event” by Kevin Simmonds 62 Amelia Curran by Andrew DuBois SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2018 Crime & Mystery 10 Ghosts in the White House by J. Madison Davis Poetry 13 Three Poems by Nazem Elsayed 19 Three Poems by Yi Sha 24 Outgoing Vessel (an excerpt) by Ursula Andkjær Olsen 29 Two Poems by Salgado Maranhão 30 Three Poems by Andrea Cote Botero Three Poems by Yi Sha Music & Lit 19 39 about the cover Illustration by WLT art director Jen Rickard Blair. 26 40 Jóhanna Mørk by Jóanes Nielsen Q&A with Lusterlit by Michelle Johnson Contents cover feature What’s on worldlit.org Visit our website...