REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Han Kang Pola Oloixarac Ngũgĩ waThiong’o Mahtem Shiferraw Andrew Lam’s Old and New Saigon Vanessa Garcia On Translating Cuba Major Jackson Visits Xichang in November Translating Playwright Hanoch Levin Dispatches from Australia,Brazil,Mexico, South Africa,the US & Beyond A Rising Sea of Climate Change Lit World LiteratureToday Your passport to great reading 4 CLI-FI NOVELS | 9 SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS | Q&A WITH AMINATTA FORNA Literature in Translation Mydriasis Followed by To the Icebergs J.M.G. Le Clezio Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan The French List Cloth $21.50 My Mother’s Tears Michel Layaz Translated by Tess Lewis The Swiss List Cloth $21.50 Only a Lodger . . . And Hardly That A Fictional Autobiography Vesna Main Cloth $24.50 Now in Paperback No Fixed Abode Ethnofiction Marc Augé Translated by Chris Turner The French List Paper $17.00 Peony Red A Case for Milena Lukin Christian Schünemann and Jelena Volic Translated by Baida Dar Paper $17.95 Book of Minutes Gemma Gorga Translated by Sharon Dolin Paper $16.95 Distributed by The University of Chicago Press www.press.uchicago.edu From From From Haus Publishing Climate Change Lit Featuring cover feature Fiction 14 Roses and Jasmine by Myronn Hardy 28 Beginners by Mika Seifert 38 The Wig by Sepideh Zamani Q&A 24 The View from Elsewhere: Aminatta Forna by Keija Parssinen 42 Co-translating Hanoch Levin, the “Beckett of Israel”: Jessica Cohen & Evan Fallenberg by Janice Weizman Essays 32 Translating Cuba in the Twenty-First Century by Vanessa Garcia REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Han Kang Pola Oloixarac Ngũgĩ waThiong’o Mahtem Shiferraw Andrew Lam’s Old and New Saigon Vanessa Garcia On Translating Cuba Major Jackson Visits Xichang in November Translating Playwright Hanoch Levin Dispatches from Australia,Brazil,Mexico, South Africa,the US & Beyond A Rising Sea of Climate Change Lit WorldLiteratureToday Your passport to great reading 4 CLI-FI NOVELS | 9 SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS | Q&A WITH AMINATTA FORNA In Every Issue | 3 Editor’s Note | 5 Notebook | 77 Books in Review | 112 Outpost SUMMER 2019 Crime & Mystery 10 A Chat with Eddie Muller, TCM’s “Czar of Noir” by J. Madison Davis Poetry 13 Five Russian Poems by Aleksandra Tsibulia 22 Two Catalan Poems by Gemma Gorga 31 Two Hungarian Poems by Renátó Fehér 36 Two US Poems by Major Jackson 47 Pollen by Marjorie Evasco puterbaugh essay Living in the Tenses in Saigon by Andrew Lam 52 48 on the cover Aritst Zaria Forman documents climate change with pastel drawings. B-15Y Iceberg, Antarctica No. 1, 72 x 72 in., soft pastel on paper, 2017 24 Contents 53 Alberto Chimal 58 Jane Hirshfield 60 Chris Arthur 65 David Holmgren 70 Márcia Wayna Kambeba 71 Tiffany Higgins 72 Sandra Jensen 74 Pireeni Sundaralingam Summer Editors’ Picks 19 Michelle Johnson 23 Daniel Simon 35 Rob Vollmar What’s on worldlit.org Visit our website for fresh content including audio, video, webexclusive stories, reading lists, and more. 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. READERS RESPOND What work of fiction, poetry, theater, or nonfiction has had the most profound impact on your understanding of climate change? READERS’ POLL: LITERARY ACTIVISM Digital Extras “We need a new vocabulary to speak accurately about our dire situation and to imagine a better way forward .Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene, edited by Linda Russo and Marthe Reed (2018), a collective glossary of terms, both invented and redefined , offers that, as well as a model for literary cooperative action.” — Denise Newman “I absolutely love Ruth Ozeki ’s A Tale for the Time Being (2015), which is about so many types of connections, including global, in the time of climate change.” — Monica Seger CONTINUED ON PAGE 73 Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. photo gallery video audio web exclusive An audio poem in the Binisaya language by Marjorie Evasco (p. 47) Additional poetry by Rina Garcia Chua (Philippines), Kedarnath Singh (India), and Frank Paino (US) An essay...