World Literature Today back issues from March 2006:
Editor's note.(Neustadt International Prize for Literature, NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2006; ... WITH OUR CURRENT FOCUS on commemorating World Literature Today's eightieth year of continuous publication in 2006, it is important to point out as well the uniqueness and distinction of the magazine's major affiliated programs: the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the NSK ...
Also inside: from the foreword to writers, by Nancy Crampton.
Mar 01, 2006; ... Many of us while reading a book will check the author photograph several times in hopes of discovering some connection between what we see there and what we are experiencing as readers. It is as if the face were the door to the dark room of the imagination, which may be why we find ...
Americanos.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... NGUGI WA THIONG'O'S words address truth to power: "But language is not simply an arrangement of sounds. Language is the people who speak it" (see WLT, September-December 2004, 12-15). Everywhere in the world, European and American colonizers have tried to destroy, replace, or submerge ...
To delight and instruct.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... YOUR FINE WORK for finding the creative voices to speak the to the needs of the person and society is observed in World Literature Today. Thank you. Please send a subscription to my sister-in-law, who hails from a tradition that tracked down voices in every generation who would help ...
The Neighborhood.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2006; ... THANK YOU for publishing the brief but poignant creative nonfiction piece by Denise Chavez (see WLT, September-December 2005, 39-40)! In a few paragraphs, Chavez manages to capture the ubiquitous generation gap through the most misunderstood and contested of forms of expression in youth ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2006 ... World Literature Today What recent books have captured your interest? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I much admired the wit and irreverence in Sefi Atta's fiercely feminist novel Everything Good Will Come (2004). Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation (2005) has convinced me that we ...
Artist profile: Terry Winters.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2006 ... World Literature Today Your studio is attached to an office/library. Do you consider your reading separate from your work as an artist, or is there a synergy between these two aspects of your life? Are there examples of something you read having a direct influence on a particular painting? ...
Drawing and writing with Terry Winters.(Fine Arts)
Mar 01, 2006; ... MUCH HAS BEEN SAID about the complex process by which Terry Winters makes his pictures, a process that finds him going back and forth among media as he moves from the drawing floor of his Tribeca studio (the top floor) in New York to the painting floor below to printmaking workshops nearby ...
21st Century Schizoid Music not a manifesto.(Fine Arts)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Since we're only five years into the new century, it's a bit disingenuous to make sweeping statements about the nature of 21st century music. Already, however, many musicians and listeners are eager to distance themselves from the previous hundred years. While arguably the most fascinating ...
Bringing bourees to Broadway: George Balanchine's career in the commercial theater.(Fine Arts)(Biography)
Mar 01, 2006; ... George Balanchine (1904-83) earned an international reputation as the greatest classical choreographer of the twentieth century. Until recently, however, few were aware of his lively career in the commercial theater: London revues, Broadway productions, and Hollywood films. Following his ...
Writers: in celebration of the eightieth anniversary of Books Abroad
Mar 01, 2006 ... Tom Stoppard LONDON 1986 I like dialogue which is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy which is frankly artificial. Peter Wood, the director with whom ...
Review of The Harmony Silk Factory.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Review of The Harmony Silk Factory, by Tash Aw (Riverhead, 2005) First aired on NPR May 23, 2005 A NUMBER OF WRITERS, from Joseph Conrad to Anthony Burgess, have tried in their fiction to give us the feel of life in Malaysia. Now, in a first novel from London resident Tash Aw, ...
Review of The Hungry Tide.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Review of The Hungry Tide, by Amitav Ghosh (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) First aired on NPR May 30, 2005 THE SUNDARBANS, a region of thousands of islands in the Ganges delta on the India-Bangladesh border, serve as the setting for Amitav Ghosh's new novel, The Hungry Tide. The ...
Review of Shalimar the Clown.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Review of Shalimar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie (Random House, 2005) First aired on NPR August 30, 2005 SALMAN RUSHDJE'S latest novel, Shalimar the Clown, is set mainly in Los Angeles and Kashmir. Twenty-four-year-old heroine India Ophuls languishing in her L.A. apartment opens ...
Essay on a dark yali.(Short story)
Mar 01, 2006; ... THE BOY TAUNTED the yali all summer long.* Any given day that summer, I would have liked being the moss covering the broken stones of the pier, just at the water's edge. Perhaps. Not that I envied the moss. Rather, because I would have been able to do what the yali could not: ...
Portrait of Elisa.(Short story)
Mar 01, 2006; ... SHE HAD RIDDEN PRESIDENT TAJES'S HORSE; she had lived in a house with fifteen rooms, a coachman, and four black servants; traveled to France when she was twelve, and still had a book bound in human skin that an Argentinean colonel had given her father in February, 1874. Now she ...
Whither Bolivia? The ethnic, cultural, and political divide.(Culture & Politics)
Mar 01, 2006; ... FELLOW AYMARAN INDIAN CANDIDATES Pascual Condori and Genaro Mamani of the Jach'a Suya Pakajaqi (Territory of the Red Eagle Men) political party, unfurling a flag flown by their Andean forefathers, campaign in the Bolivian Andes for a city council seat. Condori, with a bulging cheekful of ...
Seven Poems.(Poem)
Mar 01, 2006; ... <Pre> SEVEN POEMS What is this world? Here's a butterfly fluttering byand there's a spider's web Two people are eatingsitting facing each other An ordinary everyday thingand at the same timethe best thing Like they say, it's love ...
In Loco Parentis.(Poem)
Mar 01, 2006; ... <Pre> In Loco Parentis for Anne CloseNot now, Charles. Just leave the wine,we'll help ourselves ... (Always fussing, except when you need them.) I do wantour lunch to be festive, Naomi. You know how I've gloried, this past year, in all your ...
An interview with Carlos Montemayor.(WLT Interviews)(Interview)
Mar 01, 2006; ... CARLOS MONTEMAYOR was born in the city of Parral, Chihuahua, in 1947. When he was in his early twenties, Montemayor published his first collection of stories, Las Ilaves de Urgell (1971), which won the prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. He received the award a few years after moving ...
A brief conversation with Hanan al-Shaykh.(Interview)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... World Literature Today What recent books have captured your interest? Hanan al-Shaykh Shalimar the Clown (Random House, 2005), by Salman Rushdie; A House at the Edge of Tears (Graywolf, 2005), by Venus Khoury-Ghata; and The Bottle (in Arabic), by Yousef al-Mohaimeed. ...
"My casting couch is too short": an interview with Marion Dougherty.(Cinematic Views)(Interview)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Andrew Horton When we speak of films, we hear about actors, directors, writers, and even cinematographers, but we never hear about casting directors. Marion Dougherty It is strange, because I think the three most important elements of filmmaking are the script, the director, and ...
Introducing China & its people.(WLT Kids)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Editor's Welcome IT IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE that we have completed an entire volume year for WLT Kids! Through the articles, literature, and pictures, we have moved slowly east from Israel and Jordan in the Middle East, to Kazakhstan in Central Asia, and south below the equator ...
When a Person Is Most Beautiful.(WLT Kids)(Short story)
Mar 01, 2006; ... IN THE PAST, when Linguo Xia saw Xiaotiao Ma, she always paid little or no attention to him. Since Linguo Xia met Xiaotiao Ma's dad at his home, whenever she caught a glimpse of Xiaotiao Ma at school, she would drag him aside and ask, "Xiaotiao Ma, has your dad made the decision yet?" ...
The Adventure in the Kitchen.(Short story)
Mar 01, 2006; ... DEEP IN THE NIGHT, there was nothing in the street but lines of trees and street lamps and Mr. Potato strolling about alone. "Hi, Mr. Potato! Why not go home?" asked the little elf, landing beside him from a tree. "The kitchen is in a muck!" said Mr. Potato, ...
If I Were a Grown-Up.(Four Poems)(Poem)
Mar 01, 2006; ... <Pre> If I Were a Grown-Up If I were a grown-up,I wish I were the minister of the Ministry of EducationSo that those poor children in the western part of our motherlandCan live like usAnd go to school happily carrying their book bags. If I were a ...
A Beautiful Rainbow.(Four Poems)(Poem)
Mar 01, 2006; ... <Pre> A Beautiful Rainbow A rainbow is a mysterious door.I want to open this door,And take a look at the beautiful heaven....
We Know.(Four Poems)(Poem)
Mar 01, 2006; ... <Pre> We Know No one has seen the wind,Let alone you and me.But when the hair blows,We know the wind is coming tocomb it. No one has seen the wind,Let alone you and me.But when the paper boat runs faster,We know the wind is coming to...
Twinkling.(Four Poems)(Poem)
Mar 01, 2006; ... <Pre> Twinkling Twinkling, twinkling, what are they?They're naughty little stars,Playing and talking with Moon Sister. Twinkling, twinkling, what are they?They're the lights by our teacher's window,Traveling through the curtains and lightening our hearts ....
Resources.
Mar 01, 2006 ... For Teachers and Parents Check out one of the pictorial books on China listed below. With your child, identify several pictures that you find intriguing, either because of the scenery, the faces of the people, or the cultural artifacts. Compose simple cinquain or diamante poems ...
Muharem Bazdulj. The Second Book.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Muharem Bazdulj. The Second Book. Nikola Perkovic, Oleg Andric, Andrew Wachtel, and the author, trs. Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern University Press. 2005. 142 pages. $16.95. ISBN 0-8101-1936-6 THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE phrase "smells of the lamp" referred to works that came ...
Rene Beletto. Coda.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Rene Beletto. Coda. Paris. POL. 2005. 125 pages. 12 [euro]. ISBN 2-84682-067-8 THE HERO of Coda, Rene Belletto's recent novel, is an anonymous man. His wife has died, leaving him with a six-year-old daughter, Anna. Like many of Belletto's protagonists, he is devoted to fast ...
Andrea Camilleri. Privo di titolo.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Andrea Camilleri. Privo di titolo. Palermo. Sellerio. 2005. 296 pages. 11 [euro]. ISBN 88-389-2030-3 ANDREA CAMILLERI is the highly acclaimed Italian author of a number of Sicilian detective stories (e.g., Il giro del boia, L'dore della notte, Il ladro di merendine, La forma ...
Alia Mamdouh. Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Alia Mamdouh. Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad. Peter Theroux, tr. Helene Cixous, foreword. F. A. Haidar, afterword. New York. Feminist Press at CUNY. 2005. viii + 214 pages. $23.95. ISBN 1-55861-492-3 THERE ARE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS in Naphtalene, which relates the story of a ...
Patrice Nganang. L'Invention du beau regard: Contes citadins.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Patrice Nganang. L'Invention du beau regard: Contes citadins. Paris. Gallimard. 2005. 196 pages. 15.50 [euro]. ISBN 2-07-077271-3 THE TWO LONG TALES that make up L'invention du beau regard are moral fables set among the common people in Cameroon. It is an uncertain world, where ...
Cees Nooteboom. Paradijs verloren.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Cees Nooteboom. Paradijs verloren. Amsterdam/Antwerp. Atlas. 2005 ([c] 2004). 156 pages. 15 [euro]. ISBN 90-450-0509-3 CEES NOOTEBOOM writes here, as he often does, about travel, loss, survival, and the creative process. When, according to Milton, Adam and Eve were expelled from ...
Zsuzsa Rakovszky. A Hullocsillag Eve.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Zsuzsa Rakovszky. A hullocsillag eve. Budapest. Magveto. 2005. 400 pages. ISBN 963-14-2435-9 THE PREEMINENT HUNGARIAN POET Zsuzsa Rakovszky's second novel, A hullocsillag eve (The year of the fallen star), published only two years after her first award-winning prose masterpiece, ...
Uwe Timm. Morenga.(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Uwe Timm. Morenga. Breon Mitchell, tr. New York. New Directions. 2005 ([c] 2003). 340 pages. $15.95. ISBN 0-8112-1626-8 THE BACKGROUND for Uwe Timm's novel Morenga is provided by the 1905-7 war in German South West Africa (present-day Namibia) between the German colonial army ...
Jeanette Winterson. Lighthousekeeping.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Jeanette Winterson. Lighthousekeeping. Orlando, Florida. Harcourt. 2005 ([c] 2004). 232 pages. $23. ISBN 0-15-101117-6 WHEN THE GREAT GREEK PHILOSOPHER Pythagoras tells us that all things change, he certainly does not mention love. But the world is nothing without love, ...
Gorg Borg. Mill-Blat Insawwar Holma: Poeziji 1992-2004.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Gorg Borg. Mill-Blat Insawwar Holma: Poeziji 1992-2004. Balzan, Malta. Privately printed. 2005. 90 pages. $8. BBN 999320-364-5 Gorg Borg (b. 1946) is a modern Maltese poet whose lyrics are characterized by brevity and simplicity. He published several collections of poems between ...
Elvire Jean-Jacques Maurouard. L'Alchimie des reves.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Elvire Jean-Jacques Maurouard. L'Alchimie des reves. Paris. L'Harmattan. 2005. 50 pages. 10 [euro]. ISBN 2-7475-7990-5 SCHOLAR, PROFESSOR, JOURNALIST, AND POET, Elvire Jean-Jacques Maurouard examines representations of women in art, history, and literature. Writing in exile from ...
Lasana M. Sekou. The Salt Reaper: Poems from the Flats.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Lasana M. Sekou. The Salt Reaper: Poems from the Flats. Philipsburg, St. Martin. House of Nehesi. 2005. xvi + 114 pages. $15. ISBN 0-913441-73-2 LASANA M. SEKOU, from Dutch-owned St. Martin in the Caribbean, is a performance poet who chooses as his persona a black native forced ...
Ruth Stone. In the Dark.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Ruth Stone. In the Dark. Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon (Consortium, distr.). 2004. x + 110 pages. $22. ISBN 1-55659210-8 GREAT ARTISTS turn crippling disabilities into opportunity; a narrowed scope results in discoveries that might never have occurred if the means ...
Jacques Werup. Hundra dikter fran fyra decennier.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Jacques Werup. Hundra dikter fran fyra decennier. Anders Cullhed, foreword. Stockholm. Bonniers. 2005. 162 pages. ISBN 910-010528-7 And I see myself as a guest / in a foreign country / as if here, somewhere, never / was a bond of love / never will there be more / that can break ....
Vladimir Zakharov. Pered nebom.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Vladimir Zakharov. Pered nebom. Moscow. Vremja. 2005. 351 pages. ISBN 5-9691-0018-8 VLADIMIR ZAKHAROV--a prominent mathematician, winner of the prestigious Dirac Prize--recently published his third volume of poetry, entitled Pered nebom (Before heaven). In addition to this new ...
Botho Strauss. Die eine und die andere: Stuck in zwei Akten.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Botho Strauss. Die eine und die andere: Stuck in zwei Akten. Munich. Hanser. 2005.75 pages. 11.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-446-20620-5 IN HIS MOST RECENT DRAMA, Die eine und die andere, Botho Strauss, one of Germany's leading and most critically acclaimed playwrights for more than thirty ...
Seventy-five years ago in the pages of Books Abroad.(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... The January 1931 issue of Books Abroad included reviews of books in literature, fiction, history, drama, propaganda, financial planning, textbooks, biography, memoirs, travel, verse, art, philosophy, science, grammar, war, industry, espionage, essays, politics, economics, religion, ...
Tennessee Williams. "Mister Paradise" and Other One-Act Plays.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Tennessee Williams. Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays. Nicholas Rand Moschovakis & David E. Roessel, eds. Eli Wallach & Anne Jackson, foreword. New York. New Directions. 2005. xxxvi + 245 pages. $15.95. ISBN 0-8112-1620-9 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1998, at least five of ...
Howard Mansfield. The Bones of the Earth.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Howard Mansfield. The Bones of the Earth. Washington, D.C. Shoemaker & Hoard. 2004. 184 pages. $25. ISBN 1-59376-040-X AT FIRST, The Bones of the Earth seems the work of a New England naturalist with whom urban dwellers would have little in common. But, as William Cullen Bryant ...
Nimrod. Le Depart. Paris. Acres Sud.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Nimrod. Le Depart. Paris. Acres Sud. 2005. 102 pages. 12 [euro]. ISBN 2-7427-5315-X NIMROD is an award-winning Chadian poet who lives in France. In his novel Les Jambes d'Alice (2001), he described the tragedy of the civil war in Chad. In Le Depart, he writes more personally of ...
Bernardo Carvalho. O mundo fora dos eixos: Cronicas, resenhas e ficcoes.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Bernardo Carvalho. O mundo fora dos eixos: Cronicas, resenhas e ficcoes. Sao Paulo. Publifolha. 2005, 236 pages. ISBN 85-7402-586-0 IN O MUNDO FORA DOS EIXOS" CRONICAS, RESENHAS E FICCOES (The world out of control: Chronicles, book reviews, and fictions), Brazilian novelist ...
Italville: New Italian Writing.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Italville: New Italian Writing. Lorenzo Pavolini, ed. Toronto. Exile Editions. 2005. xxvi + 291 pages. $29.95. ISBN 1-55096-631-6 WE REALIZE WHY Italville: New Italian Writing has a slightly ominous ring when the editor of the anthology, Lorenzo Pavolini, says in his preface ...
Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. Ahdaf Soueif, foreword. James Ridgeway, intro. New York. Feminist Press at CUNY. 2005. xxiii + 286 pages. $14.95. ISBN 1-55861-489-3 WHAT MAKES READING THE ENTRIES of Riverbend's weblog different from reading entries in a memoir ...
Veronique Tadjo. Reine Pokou.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2006; ... Veronique Tadjo. Reine Pokou. Paris. Actes Sud. 2005. 93 pages. 12 [euro]. ISBN 2-7427-5393-4 ACCORDING TO LEGEND, Queen Pokou had to flee from the Ashanti kingdom after a war of succession. When the fugitives could not cross a wide river to escape, Pokou threw her infant son ...
From O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare.(Reprint)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2006 ... THE CLIFFS OF MOHER in the afternoon light, crystalline and sparkling. There, from O'Brien's Tower, is one of the best views from any point in the West of Ireland. We had seen it before, and had seen, too, in an accepting, glimpsing way innumerable postcards of it. And yet. You stand ...