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SUBSCRIBE NOW at worldliteraturetoday.com DEPARTMENTS Crime & Mystery 09 Reading Through a Glass Darkly: The e-Book Revolution BY J. MADISON DAVIS Essays 12 A Lesson in the Nature of Revolution BY ADANIA SHIBLI 14 What Is Asia to Me? Looking East from Africa BY NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O 37 Fun with Your New Head: Getting into SF BY MICHAEL A. MORRISON Poetry 13 Meditation Caves of Tibet BY FRED DINGS 30 Two Poems BY PAULA BOHINCE 41 The Truth a Poet Can Tell BY MONIQUE ROUSSEL Fiction 31 We, the Daughters of Mr. Khunsur Ali BY MURTEDHA GZAR Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 04 Editor's Pick | 05 Notebook | 53 World Literature in Review | 80 Outpost JULY/AUGUST 2012 FEATURES Post–Celtic Tiger Ireland 20 Major Drill In the mountains above the now inert streets of Dublin, tensions flare as two men perform army drills. Are they just “messing about,” or are they doomed to act out a deadly struggle? FICTION BY ETHEL ROHAN 25 Two Poems BY CAITRIONA O’REILLY 26 The Devil I Know Claire Kilroy’s characters ride through a “country dark” post–Celtic Tiger landscape, their GPS registering nothing and no St. Christopher to protect them. Is that the Devil out there in the gorse? FICTION BY CLAIRE KILROY A Tribute to Marina Carr 42 Theater in Eleven Dimensions: A Conversation with Marina Carr BY NANCY FINN 47 The Shadow Side of Modern Ireland The dark comedy, searching lyricism, and vernacular in Carr's plays might come from an Irish wellspring, but they travel well beyond it. BY JODY ALLEN RANDOLPH 51 Tough, Impossible Love: The Theater of Marina Carr Reconnecting with Irish theater at the 2012 Puterbaugh Festival. BY MARK CUDDY On the Cover Marina Carr takes time out for a portrait during her visit to the University of Oklahoma in March 2012. Photo by Shevaun Williams. How do you explain dark matter? That dark matter in us and out there. This search for the light, for beauty, for love, for eternity, for God if you believe in God, is one way of looking at the world, and you either enter into that journey or you reject that journey. — Marina Carr 26 42 12 14 EDITORIAL BOARD Roger Allen Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda Manuel Durán Howard Goldblatt George Gömöri Talat S. Halman Alamgir Hashmi Vasa D. Mihailovich Tanure Ojaide Ilán Stavans Theodore Ziolkowski CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Hester Baer José Juan Colín J. Madison Davis Pamela Genova Andrew Horton Emily Johnson Takeshi Kimoto Monica Seger Jonathan Stalling Rob Vollmar INTERNS Madeline Alford Emily Bibens Michael Bibens Kayley Gillespie Laura Hernandez Jessica Mitzner Eliza Robertson BOARD OF VISITORS Molly Shi Boren S. Ross Clarke Cheryl Foote Groenendyke Sarah C. Hogan Judy Zarrow Kishner Mary D. Nichols Susan Neustadt Schwartz George A. Singer Jeanne Hoffman Smith Lela Sullivan James R. Tolbert III Lew O. Ward Martha Griffin White Penny Williams WLT WORLD LITERATURE TODAY World Literature Today is published bimonthly at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Postmaster: Send address changes to WLT, 630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110, Norman OK 73019-4037. Periodicals postage paid at Hanover PA 17331. Copyright © 2012 by World Literature Today and the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma. ISSN 0196-3570 (1945-8134 online). Subscription and advertising rates are listed on our website (www. worldliteraturetoday.com) or can be obtained through the editorial office. Ph: 405.325.4531. Fax: 405.325.7495. 3,300 copies of this issue have been prepared and distributed by the Sheridan Press at no cost to the taxpayers of the State of Oklahoma. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. July–August 2012 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & NEUSTADT PROFESSOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & EDITOR IN CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR BOOK REVIEW EDITOR PROGRAMS & DEVELOPMENT ART DIRECTOR DIGITAL MEDIA EDITOR CIRCULATION & ACCOUNTS DIGITAL MEDIA ASSISTANT WEB DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT Volume 86, Number 4 Robert Con Davis-Undiano Daniel Simon Michelle Johnson Marla Johnson Terri D. Stubblefield Merleyn Ruth Bell Jennifer Rickard Kay Blunck Kaitlin Hawkins Sam Tran “Fátima, Queen of the Night,” a short story by Cuban writer Miguel Barnet, translated by George Henson Eric Bosse reports on the Ó Bhéal weekly...