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 ...