Recently added articles from World Literature Today:
"We are pinned with the pin of love; it is a pin that will never go rusty.".(editor's note)(Patricia and Waiariki Grace)(Editorial)
May 01, 2009; ... The invocation by Patricia and Waiariki Grace and Rangimoana Taylor prior to the 2008 Neustadt Lecture galvanized the audience gathered to honor her life and work. The themes of Grace's talk, entitled "The World Where You Are," confirmed her perennial touchstones as a writer and both the ...
Many worlds.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... In his editor's note in the January 2009 issue of World Literature Today, Daniel Simon quotes David Damrosch's essay (WLT, April 2003, 9-14) in which he speaks about "World Literature" as a body of writings "whereby writers frame their respective cultures as 'windows on the world.'" Simon ...
Winter's voice: Bei Dao.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... From the first time we met (at the Asia Society's November 1988 forum on the writer's role in contemporary society), Bei Dao has impressed me with the art of understatement. Whereas Gu Cheng came in sporting an eccentric hat and twittering speech filled with quotable aphorisms, Bei Dao ...
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading.(notebook)(Quotation)
May 01, 2009; ... "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can ...
Auckland writers and readers festival.(notebook)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Aotea Centre is hosting the annual Auckland Writers and Readers Festival at The Edge (May 13-17). Initiated by creative directors Peter Wells and Stephanie Johnson in 1999, the festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary. This year the festival will ...
Highlights from the Neustadt Prize Conference.(notebook)(Conference notes)
May 01, 2009; ... The Neustadt Prize Conference brings the world's finest contemporary authors to the University of Oklahoma campus for lectures, public discussions, and symposia in honor of their work. WLT welcomed New Zealand native Patricia Grace to the OU campus in September 2008. ...
The Gingko Light.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2009 ... The Gingko Light Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Arthur Sze intertwines destruction's aftermath with nature's perseverance in his newest collection of poetry. The former poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, uses the symbol ...
The Angel's Cut.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2009 ... The Angel's Cut Elizabeth Knox (Vintage) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The latest novel from this New Zealand-born author is set against ...
Dona Rosita the Spinster.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2009 ... Dona Rosita the Spinster Federico Garcia Lorca (A&C Black) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to the Daily Telegraph, this ...
George Sprott (1894-1975).(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2009 ... George Sprott (1894-1975) Seth (Drawn & Quarterly) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new and expanded version ...
Mr. Monk & the pleasing paradigm.(Crime & Mystery: INTERNATIONAL)(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; ... Television was once primarily a local, or at least national, force in culture, but as the world has gotten "flatter," to use Thomas Friedman's term, not just movies, but certain television shows have become well known globally. Many American crime dramas, such as Magnum, P.I. and Law and ...
"I insist on happiness": a conversation with Opal Palmer Adisa.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 01, 2009; ... Opal Palmer Adisa, who was born in Jamaica and now teaches at California College of the Arts, has published ten books--short stories, novels, poetry collections, essays, and children's books--and holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a storyteller, runs ...
Remote Control.(FICTION)(Excerpt)
May 01, 2009; ... A member of the Association of Iranian Writers, Moniro Ravanipour has written several novels, short stories, and children's books. As a supporter of anti-censorship movements in Iran, she finds her work continually under governmental scrutiny. Ravanipour waited seven years to receive a ...
Some Day in a City as Hectic and Crowded as Harare.(POETRY)(Poem)
May 01, 2009; ... <Pre> Some Day in a City as Hectic and Crowded as Harare In memoriam Dambudzo Marechera Some day in a city as hectic and crowded as Harare(Where amnesia rides the air like a cold breeze)Which I have on occasionAdulated with an effusivenessAs capricious as ...
We Fall Only to Allow Powerful Spirits to Rise.(POETRY)(Poem)
May 01, 2009; ... <Pre> We Fall Only to Allow Powerful Spirits to Rise For Zensile Miriam Makeba (1932-2008) Song polished to slicknessDelivered with a studied mellow poiseOf Pata pata beats and witty tongue-twisting songsAbove Belafonte's searing calypso guitars and Masekela's ...
Your Name/Lalu'.(Poetry)(Poem)
May 01, 2009; ... <Pre> Your Name Day and night, your name.In the morning, the afternoon, at duskonly your name spinsthrough my headlike a man straight-jacketedfor having lost his mind;only your name slipsover my tonguelike a fish between the handsof a ...
From the Palm of My Hand.(Poetry)(Poem)
May 01, 2009; ... <Pre> From the Palm of My Hand From the palm of my handthe afternoon eats its meal:lean horse abandoned for being old,nagging horse, dirty horse. There is a trailbehind the hillyou see there.In the open skythree white tissues distance ...
Six Variations on Love.(Poetry)(Poem)
May 01, 2009; ... <Pre> Six Variations on Love ILovecomes along like an onerous bundlethat cannot be carried for longwithout ending in cursing. IILovecomes along like a candle flameor like the sun that shines in the sky:we watch it decay, later ...
Patricia Grace: the 2008 Neustadt Laureate.(neustadt section)(Cover story)
May 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Aotearoa / New Zealand author Patricia Grace, the twentieth laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, has been writing and publishing since the mid-1970s. Grace's published work includes six novels, five short-story collections, and ...
Indigenous popular culture.(special section)(Essay)
May 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Efforts to revitalize Native stories and indigenous cultures in the Americas are often interlaced with similar movements around the globe and with the protean genres of popular culture. To complement our special section on Neustadt laureate Patricia Grace, ...