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Jenny Erpenbeck Have You Read Europe’s Most Important Novelist? PORTFOLIO Why Read Kurdish Poetry? REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY OlgaTokarczuk Rodrigo Fresán Shahriar Mandanipour & more World LiteratureToday Your passport to great reading CHRIS ABANI PLAYS THE SAX | SYLVIE WEIL COMES TO AMERICA | CHILDISH GAMBINO’S AMERICA DISTRIBUTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS www.press.uchicago.edu The Great Fall PETER HANDKE Translated by Krishna Winston Cloth $24.50 The Sex of the Angels, the Saints in their Heaven A Breviary RAOUL SCHROTT Translated by Karen Leeder Illustrated by Arnold Mario Dall’O Cloth $27.50 Blue Jewellery KATHARINA WINKLER Translated by Laura Wagner Cloth $21.50 A Slap in the Face ABBAS KHIDER Translated by Simon Pare Cloth $21.50 Now in Paperback Storm Still PETER HANDKE Translated by Martin Chalmers Paper $19.00 Now in Paperback Till Day You Do Part Or a Question of Light PETER HANDKE Translated by Mike Mitchell Paper $19.00 Now in Paperback War Diary INGEBORG BACHMANN With Letters from Jack Hamesh Edited and with an Afterword by Hans Höller Translated by Mike Mitchell Paper $10.00 Thick of It ULRIKE ALMUT SANDIG Translated by Karen Leeder Cloth $19.00 The German List FROM SEAGULL BOOKS Q&A 18 A Conversation with Chris Abani by Rob Roensch & Mary B. Gray Essays 26 Yu Xiuhua: A Life Lived in Poetry by Dian Li 35 Lin Shu, Author of the Quixote by Mikaël Gómez Guthart 40 Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” by Ladan Osman Fiction 30 The Cadillac by Sylvie Weil 37 De Beauvoir and Sartre on the Kibbutz by Moshe Sakal Jenny Erpenbeck Have You Read Europe’s Most Important Novelist? PORTFOLIO Why Read Kurdish Poetry? REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY OlgaTokarczuk Rodrigo Fresán Shahriar Mandanipour & more WorldLiteratureToday Jenny Erpenbeck Have You Read Europe’s Most Important Novelist? PORTFOLIO Why Read Kurdish Poetry? REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY OlgaTokarczuk Rodrigo Fresán Shahriar Mandanipour & more & more & Jenny WorldLiteratureToday WorldLiteratureToday WorldLiteratureToday Your passport to great reading CHRIS ABANI PLAYS THE SAX | SYLVIE WEIL COMES TO AMERICA | CHILDISH GAMBINO’S AMERICA In Every Issue | 3 Editor’s Note | 5 Notebook | 64 World Literature in Review | 96 Outpost 46 Jenny Erpenbeck: 2018 Puterbaugh Fellow 48 The Enduring Impermanence of Jenny Erpenbeck by Necia Chronister 52 Vectors, Vanishing Points, and Vicissitudes in the Works of Jenny Erpenbeck by Robert Lemon 57 The 2018 Puterbaugh Keynote by Jenny Erpenbeck JULY – AUGUST 2018 Crime & Mystery 10 The Nightmare Tropes of Three Women Writers by J. Madison Davis Poetry 13 The Norman Chronicles by Chantal Bizzini 25 Two Poems by Zoltán Böszörményi 29 Two Poems by Yu Xiuhua 42 A Portfolio of Kurdish Poetry by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse Creative Nonfiction 14 Worlds Within, Apart by Kevin Chang Ladan Osman on Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” Yu Xiuhua: A Life Lived in Poetry 40 26 about the cover Shevaun Williams photographed Jenny Erpenbeck in the Bizzell Memorial Library stacks and the Great Reading Room during her visit to the University of Oklahoma. 30 “The Cadillac” by Sylvie Weil Contents cover feature What’s on worldlit.org Visit our website for fresh content including audio, video, web-exclusive stories, reading lists, and more. Listen to bilingual readings of two poems from “The Norman Chronicles” by Chantal Bizzini, translated by Zack Rogow. Read an excerpt from Dylana and Diram by Kurdish author Salim Barakat. Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. 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 Yahia Lababidi @YahiaLababidi Thank you, @worldlittoday for granting me the opportunity to review Omid Safi’s ostadjaan peace-offering-ofa -book, Radical Love. May it help to soften hearts and open minds in this holy month of #Ramadan. Consortium Books @ConsortiumBooks Hey #westworld fans! @worldlittoday describes The Abolition of Species from @DoppelHouse as an...