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WorldLiteratureToday Essays 12 Aesthetics of Dystopia Blindness from Novel to Film by Carolina Rueda 24 The Showa Masterwork of Manga Pioneer Shigeru Mizuki by Deji Bryce Olukotun 38 Comics, War, and Ordinary Miracles by Adnan Mahmutović & Lucy Durneen Q&A 16 The Secret History of Female Muslim Empowerment A Conversation with Kenizé Mourad by Jacob Daniels 32 The Punished Body An Interview with Pedro Lemebel by John Better Fiction 20 The End of the Game by Xie Hong Crime & Mystery 29 Playing by the Rules by J. Madison Davis Poetry 37 Two Poems by Yi Lu 41 To Octavio Paz by Yau Ching 51 Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory by Frank Paino special section 52 The Puterbaugh Legacy Featuring Luisa Valenzuela Marina Carr Dacia Maraini Roberto Fernández Retamar J. M. Coetzee Maaza Mengiste cover feature 60 New Hebrew Writing Featuring Almog Behar, Tomer Gardi, Ayman Sikseck, Mei-Tal Nadler, Dory Manor, Daniel Oz, Yiftach Ashkenazi, Raveh Sagie, Yaakov Biton, Tahel Frosh, Ronit Matalon, Saar Yachin, Roy Chen, Maya Arad, and Yael Neeman Editors’ Picks: Summer Reads Jen Rickard Blair Laura R. Hernandez Michelle Johnson Marla Johnson Daniel Simon And turn to page 8 for more recommendations. about the cover Tahel Frosh photographed by Alon Porat. Turn to page 88 to read her poems. Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 106 World Literature in Review | 128 Outpost double issue may – august 2015 24 37 51 15 23 45 83 101 FLICKR PHOTOS : ( TOP ) JEN RICKARD BLAIR ( BOTTOM ) VANESSA RUDLOFF / SHEVAUN WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY worldliteraturetoday.org Web Exclusive Join the WLT community Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, and Flickr to share ideas, view photos, and read book reviews. Facebook facebook.com/ worldlittoday Twitter @worldlittoday Pinterest @worldlit GoodReads goodreads.com/ worldlittoday Visit worldliteraturetoday.org for exclusive content you won’t want to miss, including web exclusives, photo galleries, blog posts, and much more. Adnan Mahmutović and Lucy Durneen read “Comics, War, and Ordinary Miracles” Our readers have shared on Twitter why they read WLT and you can, too! Use the hashtag #IReadWLT to join the discussion. @MarilyseFig I love to read WLT because of the great mix of intellectual and down-to-earth essays and writers! #IReadWLT @ericamena #IReadWLT because it’s part of my @ALTA_USA community & for the great #poetry in #translation. @mwbworld #IReadWLT in my favorite chair when I get home after a long day of work. @shikokusue #IReadWLT because the magazine covers important books from around the world unlike any other publication in English. @roughghosts @worldlittoday Poetry, interviews, and essays that open a window on the world—that’s why #IReadWLT @PersisMK #IReadWLT because literature better represents people & culture than governments. WLT’s coverage is bigger than FOX, CNN & Washington DC. @shaunrandol #IReadWLT b/c even when I’m away, I still want to escape. @PaulMMCooper Support @worldlittoday by sharing a picture of you on the hashtag #IReadWLT. One of the finest journals online today! @evnicolas I grew up in different countries. Reading was a way to engage with these worlds. As an adult, I still love a variety of voices. #IReadWLT Tweets Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online at worldliteraturetoday.org. WEB EXCLUSIVE PHOTO GALLERY AUDIO VIDEO Web Exclusive Find us on Flickr flickr.com/wltonline Bilingual audio poems by Tahel Frosh with Adriana Jacobs Dinah Assouline Stillman’s extended essay on Ronit Matalon An excerpt from The Firebird, a new novel by Saikat Majumdar Web Exclusive Web Exclusive worldliteraturetoday.org 3 Have a comment, critique, or inspiration you’d like to share? Let us hear from you via the feedback link on the WLT website, Tweet us @worldlittoday, or email the editor in chief at dsimon@ou.edu. editor’s note since 1970, seventeen eventual laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature have been hosted by WLT on the University of Oklahoma campus as part of our Neustadt and Puterbaugh literary traditions. Moreover, two years before he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Elie Wiesel visited OU to help select Finnish poet and playwright Paavo Haavikko as the surprise winner of the 1984 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Only recently, however , did I discover another Oklahoma...