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Your passport to great reading World LiteratureToday REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Anne Carson | J. M.Coetzee | Carolyn Forché | Andrés Neuman Shokoofeh Azar Iran’s Diaspora Down Under Michelle de Kretser The Novel as World-Building Notes from the Cataclysm 6 Writers Reckon with the Pandemic Poetry from Greece, Hong Kong & Portugal Fiction from Brazil, Germany & Kuwait ANTONIO MERCADANTE FINDS A SUITCASE | Q&A WITH TRANSLATOR BONNIE HUIE | PORTRAIT OF PORTO OCT.19-21, 2020 Announcing the 2020 Sponsored by World LiteratureToday NEUSTADT LIT FEST featuring 2020 Neustadt Prize Winner Ismail Kadare plus more than a dozen other participating writers, artists, and scholars and the launch of Dispatches from the Republic of Letters, an anthology to mark the anniversary of the prize neustadtprize.org/litfest The University of Oklahoma Bringing the world into conversation through literature since 2013. RECENT RELEASES FROM DEEP VELLUM: Dictionary of Midnight Kurdistan “Shows the lasting haunt of exile... Evocative.” – Asymptote Journal Girls Lost Sweden “Desire and identity converge... A page-turner that lingers.” – WWB The Love Story of the Century Finland “A revelation.” – Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore Above Us the Milky Way United States | Afghanistan “A sharply etched treatise on the objects of memory.” – Kirkus, ★ Deep Vellum | 3000 Commerce St. | Dallas, TX | deepvellum.org Notes from the Cataclysm FEATURING 56 Carlos Pintado 61 Gianni Skaragas 66 Elaine Vilar Madruga 68 Hawre Khalid 70 Anna Kushner 72 Rilla Askew Shokoofeh Azar Azar recalls her refugee journey from Iran to Christmas Island and reveals why Iranians continue to migrate to Australia. Zoo Syndrome Two startling discoveries unfold in Sadaa al-Daas’s Kafkaesque story that follows an unusual transformation. Fiction 16 The Cockroach by Luís Fernando Veríssimo 20 Assembly by Etan Nechin 34 The Scythe by Christa Reinig 50 Zoo Syndrome by Sadaa al-Daas Essays 18 The Suitcase of Saba’s Last Journey by Antonio Alessandro Mercadante 22 Desegregating Language: The New Afrikaans Crime Novel by Peter Constantine Your passport to great reading WorldLiteratureToday REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY Anne Carson | J. M.Coetzee | Carolyn Forché | Andrés Neuman Shokoofeh Azar Iran’s Diaspora Down Under Michelle de Kretser The Novel as World-Building Notes from the Cataclysm 6 Writers Reckon with the Pandemic Poetry from Greece, Hong Kong & Portugal Fiction from Brazil, Germany & Kuwait ANTONIO MERCADANTE FINDS A SUITCASE | Q&A WITH TRANSLATOR BONNIE HUIE | PORTRAIT OF PORTO In Every Issue | 3 Editor’s Note | 5 Notebook | 35 Editor’s Pick | 75 Books in Review | 112 Outpost SUMMER 2020 En Face 12 Exploring Translated Lit’s Ecosystem: A Conversation with Bonnie Huie by Veronica Esposito Poetry 15 Causa Artis 3 by Dimitra Kotoula 26 Burmese Days by Shahilla Shariff 36 The Coastal Path by Eleni Kefala 49 Two Francophone Poems by Alain Mabanckou 53 Salome after the Crime by Ana Luísa Amaral cover feature 54 38 50 Q&A 28 Broken Novels, Ruptured Worlds: Michelle de Kretser by Roberta Trapè 44 There Is Also This Civil War Inside of Me: Zisis Ainalis by Adam J. Goldwyn on the cover Halkidiki’s deserted seafront, by Gianni Skaragas. See more of his photos alongside his essay about Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on page 61. Contents puterbaugh essay What’s on worldlit.org Visit our website for fresh content including audio, video, web-exclusive 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. NOTES FROM THE CATACLYSM COMING IN THE AUTUMN 2020 ISSUE The City Issue: San Juan, Puerto Rico Digital Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online. photo gallery video audio web exclusive Listen to the Greek version of Eleni Kefala’s “The Coastal Path” (p. 36) Recent #Covid-19 Reflections at worldlit.org/weekly Baret Magarian “The Italian Quarantine” Edmundo Paz-Soldán “Strange Times” Trans. George Henson SarahBelle Selig “What Count Rostov Taught Me about Quarantine” Ethel Rohan “Oh, the Places You’ll Not Go!” Mai Al-Nakib “Pandemic Invasion: Reflections from Kuwait” Alex Wade “Social Distancing on the Moors” Elena Poniatowska “In Mexico, One Bookstore per 120,000 Inhabitants” Trans...