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  1. Back Matter
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0289
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  1. Front Matter
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0316
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  1. Editor's Note
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0293
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  1. The Death of Francophone Literature?
  2. Alec G. Hargreaves
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0194
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  1. Citizens of Exile
  2. James Smoot
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0287
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  1. Mario Bellatin
  2. Kurt Hollander
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  1. Vilnius, Lithuania: A European Capital of Culture for 2009
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0041
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  1. Thirty-Five Passages over Water
  2. Alan Cheuse
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  1. Newbooks
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0312
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  1. If It's Tuesday, There Must Be a Murder in Belgium
  2. J. Madison Davis
  3. pp. 9-11
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0145
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  1. Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo (review)
  2. Alan Cheuse
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  1. Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand by Gioconda BelliThe Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys, Helen Humphrey (review)
  2. Alan Cheuse
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  1. The Age of Orphans by Laleh KhadiviThe Siege by Ismail Kadare (review)
  2. Alan Cheuse
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0319
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  1. One Window
  2. Forough Farokhzad, Meetra A. Sofia
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0283
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  1. Beyond "Whereverness": A Conversation with Tabish Khair
  2. Michelle Johnson, Tabish Khair
  3. pp. 16-19
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  1. A Conversation with Elske Schotanus
  2. Peter Constantine, Elske Schotanus
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  1. Words
  2. Jazra Khaleed, Peter Constantine
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  1. [Introduction]
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  1. Mo Yan: Laureate of the 2009 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature
  2. Haiyan Lee
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0128
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  1. Six Lives in Search of a Character: The 2009 Newman Prize Lecture
  2. Mo Yan, Sylvia Li-chun Lin
  3. pp. 26-27
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  1. Mo Yan's Novels Are Wearing Me out: Nominating Statement for the 2009 Newman Prize
  2. Howard Goldblatt
  3. pp. 28-29
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0037
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  1. Mo Yan's Fiction and the Chinese Nativist Literary Tradition
  2. Liu Hongtao, Haiyan Lee
  3. pp. 30-31
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  1. Mo Yan as Humorist
  2. Alexander C. Y. Huang, Howard Goldblatt
  3. pp. 32-37
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  1. No Reprieve
  2. Jean Métellus, Haun Saussy
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  1. Words
  2. Jean Métellus, Haun Saussy
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  1. Land
  2. Jean Métellus, Haun Saussy
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  1. Guardian Angel
  2. Rubem Fonseca, Clifford E. Landers
  3. pp. 40-43
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  1. The First Stone
  2. Carlos Eduardo Jaramillo, Alexis Levitin, Fernando Iturburu
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  1. License of the Doe
  2. Sonia Manzano, Alexis Levitin, Fernando Iturburu
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  1. Remembering the Balkans
  2. Muharem Bazdulj, John K. Cox
  3. pp. 46-48
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  1. "Memory of a Phoenix Feather": Iranian Storytelling Traditions and Contemporary Theater
  2. Niloufar Talebi
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  1. "Downfall on the Horizon" (An Excerpt)
  2. Shahrouz Rashid
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  1. Passing: The Writer's Skin and the Authentic Self
  2. Rilla Askew
  3. pp. 54-57
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  1. Portal to Antiquity: Hasankeyf, Turkey
  2. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
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  1. With a Long Breath
  2. Zaradachet Hajo
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  1. A Book Review Editor's Apologia
  2. Marla Johnson
  3. p. 61
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  1. Ghosts by César Aira, Chris Andrews (review)
  2. Will H. Corral
  3. pp. 61-62
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  1. Buffalo Lockjaw by Greg Ames (review)
  2. Marvin J. LaHood
  3. pp. 62-63
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  1. Blood Test by Abbas Beydoun, Max Weiss (review)
  2. Issa J. Boullata
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  1. Tirana memoria by Horacio Castellanos Moya (review)
  2. Will H. Corral
  3. pp. 63-64
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  1. Two Novellas by YAE: A Moroccan in New York and Sea Drinkers by Youssouf Amine Elalamy, John Liechty (review)
  2. Ian Munro
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  1. Appassionata by Eva Hoffman (review)
  2. Raymond Taras
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  1. Erinnerungen an meinen Porsche by Bodo Kirchhoff (review)
  2. Ulf Zimmermann
  3. p. 66
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  1. Black Bazar by Alain Mabanckou (review)
  2. Adele King
  3. pp. 66-67
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  1. Barneregjeringen by Aleksander Melli (review)
  2. Anna Paterson
  3. pp. 67-68
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  1. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (review)
  2. Jim Hannan
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  1. The Feline Plague by Maja Novak, Maja Visenjak-Limon (review)
  2. Robert Murray Davis
  3. pp. 68-69
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  1. De Hearen fan Fryslân by Arjen Terpstra (review)
  2. Henry J. Baron
  3. pp. 69-70
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  1. Himmelsbrück by Joachim Walther (review)
  2. Gregory H. Wolf
  3. p. 70
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  1. Memory Glyphs: Three Prose Poets from Romania by Radu Andriescu, Iustin Pant̨a, Cristian Popescu, Adam J. Sorkin (review)
  2. Robert Murray Davis
  3. p. 71
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0059
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  1. Berlin-Hamlet by Szilárd Borbély, Ottilie Mulzet (review)
  2. George Gömöri
  3. pp. 71-72
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0282
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  1. Ex-Odes du Jardin: Variations & autres collages d'intemporalité by Rome Deguergue (review)
  2. Alice-Catherine Carls
  3. pp. 72-73
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0065
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  1. Instructions on How to Read a Newspaper and Other Poems by Valerio Magrelli, Anthony Molino, Riccardo Duranti, Anamaria Crowe Serrano (review)
  2. Rita Signorelli-Pappas
  3. pp. 73-74
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  1. Staying Blue by Gibbons Ruark (review)
  2. Fred Dings
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  1. Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry by Brian Boyd, Stanislav Shvabrin, Vladimir Nabokov (review)
  2. David Shook
  3. pp. 74-75
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  1. Le plagiat par anticipation by Pierre Bayard (review)
  2. Warren Motte
  3. pp. 75-76
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  1. The Life of a Long-Distance Writer: The Biography of Alan Sillitoe by Richard Bradford (review)
  2. William Hutchings
  3. p. 76
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  1. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty (review)
  2. Robert Murray Davis
  3. pp. 76-77
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0051
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  1. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari (review)
  2. Michele Levy
  3. pp. 77-78
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  1. Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing (review)
  2. W. M. Hagen
  3. p. 78
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0078
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  1. Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century by Warren Motte (review)
  2. Albert Samuel Whisman
  3. pp. 78-79
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2009.0113
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  1. Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money by Maghiel van Crevel (review)
  2. Steve Bradbury
  3. p. 79
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  1. Sidewinder Highway
  2. Nathan Brown
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  1. Outposts: Literary Landmarks & Events
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