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  1. Editor’s Note
  2. Daniel Simon
  3. p. 3
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946581
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  1. Silenced? Fear and Courage in an Era of Book Bans
  2. Margarita Engle
  3. pp. 5-7
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946532
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  1. Reading North Koreans
  2. Immanuel Kim
  3. pp. 8-10
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946533
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  1. Norwegian Speculative Fiction in Translation
  2. Rachel Cordasco
  3. p. 11
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946534
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  1. Toki Pona
  2. Veronica Esposito
  3. pp. 12-13
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946535
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  1. The Lemon Tree
  2. Rania Mamoun, Elisabeth Jaquette
  3. pp. 14-15
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946536
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  1. Stone Baby
  2. Melanie Cheng
  3. pp. 16-19
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946537
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  1. The Anime Café (an excerpt)
  2. Nadine Estero
  3. pp. 20-21
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946538
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  1. “Literature Is Iceland’s Cultural Legacy”: A Conversation with Thórdís Helgadóttir
  2. Adam Goldwyn, Larissa Kyzer
  3. pp. 22-26
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946539
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  1. 5 Questions for Zahid Rafiq
  2. Michelle Johnson, Zahid Rafiq
  3. p. 27
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946540
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  1. Digesting the Seeds of Cape Town
  2. Erik Gleibermann
  3. pp. 28-29
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946541
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  1. (books read when drunk)
  2. Edina Szvoren, Erika Mihálycsa, Peter Sherwood
  3. pp. 30-31
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946542
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  1. Language of White Bones: The Secrets of Han Kang’s Poetic Prose
  2. Eun-Gwi Chung
  3. pp. 32-37
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946543
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  1. 5 Questions for Devika Rege
  2. Michelle Johnson, Devika Rege
  3. pp. 38-39
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946544
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  1. Ananda Devi: 2024 Neustadt Prize Laureate
  2. pp. 40-41
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946545
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  1. A World of One’s Own: A Tribute to Ananda Devi
  2. Fabienne Kanor, Jeffrey Zuckerman
  3. pp. 42-43
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946546
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  1. Writer/Woman: The 2024 Neustadt Prize Lecture
  2. Ananda Devi
  3. pp. 44-47
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946547
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  1. Darkness and Beauty: On Translating Ananda Devi
  2. Jeffrey Zuckerman
  3. pp. 48-49
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946548
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  1. Barriers, Borders, Boundaries, and Crossings in the Work of Ananda Devi
  2. Julie-Françoise Tolliver
  3. pp. 50-51
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946549
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  1. Recapping the 2024 Neustadt Lit Fest
  2. Daniel Simon
  3. pp. 52-53
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946550
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  1. We Do Not Part: A Novel by Han Kang (review)
  2. Elaine Margolin
  3. p. 55
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946551
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  1. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk (review)
  2. Elizabeth Fifer
  3. p. 56
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946552
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  1. A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse (review)
  2. Felix Haas
  3. pp. 56-57
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946553
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  1. The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma (review)
  2. Christopher Hebert
  3. pp. 57-58
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946554
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  1. We’re Alone by Edwidge Danticat (review)
  2. Colleen Lutz Clemens
  3. p. 58
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946555
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  1. Intermezzo: A Novel by Sally Rooney (review)
  2. Siyu Cao
  3. pp. 58-59
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946556
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  1. Otrarse: Ladino Poems by Juan Gelman (review)
  2. Ryan Long
  3. pp. 59-60
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946557
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  1. Still City by Oksana Maksymchuk (review)
  2. Nicole Yurcaba
  3. pp. 60-61
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946558
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  1. The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard (review)
  2. Elisa Sotgiu
  3. p. 61
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946559
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  1. Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq (review)
  2. Eric Vanderwall
  3. pp. 61-62
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946560
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  1. On the Back of the Tiger: A Novel by Zülfü Livaneli (review)
  2. Matt A. Hanson
  3. pp. 62-63
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946561
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  1. Dendrites by Kallia Papadaki (review)
  2. Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
  3. pp. 64-65
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946562
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  1. The Emperor by Makenzy Orcel (review)
  2. M. S. Adamska
  3. pp. 65-66
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946563
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  1. Street of Too Many Stories by Denise Chávez (review)
  2. Rigoberto González
  3. p. 66
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946564
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  1. Mevlido’s Dreams: A Post-Exotic Novel by Antoine Volodine (review)
  2. Daniel P. Haeusser
  3. pp. 66-67
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946565
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  1. Palestinian by Ibrahim Nasrallah (review)
  2. Nicholas Skaldetvind
  3. pp. 67-68
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946566
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  1. The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies (review)
  2. Alice-Catherine Carls
  3. pp. 68-69
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946567
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  1. The Club of True Creators by Milan Tripković (review)
  2. Michele Levy
  3. pp. 69-70
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946568
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  1. The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories by Devon A. Mihesuah (review)
  2. Lee Hester
  3. p. 70
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946569
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  1. Elevator in Sài Gòn by ThuẬn (review)
  2. Janet Graham
  3. pp. 70-71
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946570
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  1. Pasión Nails by Rosario Izquierdo (review)
  2. Ana M. Lopez-Aguilera
  3. pp. 71-72
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946571
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  1. Command Performance by Jean Echenoz (review)
  2. Kai Maristed
  3. pp. 72-73
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946572
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  1. Question 7 by Richard Flanagan (review)
  2. Marek Makowski
  3. pp. 74-75
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946573
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  1. Wheel by Hayden Saunier (review)
  2. Carole Mertz
  3. pp. 75-76
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946574
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  1. Ghostroots: Stories by Pemi Aguda (review)
  2. Delight Ejiaka
  3. pp. 76-77
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946575
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  1. Salt by Adriana Riva (review)
  2. Kevin Canfield
  3. p. 77
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946576
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  1. Los alemanes by Sergio Del Molino (review)
  2. Edward Waters Hood
  3. pp. 77-78
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946577
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  1. The Curse of the Flores Women: A Novel by Angélica Lopes (review)
  2. Susan Blumberg-Kason
  3. p. 78
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946578
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  1. The Invention of the Darling: Poems by Li-Young Lee (review)
  2. Matthew Shenoda
  3. p. 79
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946579
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  1. Nuria: The Home of African Books
  2. J. L. Powers
  3. p. 80
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2025.a946580
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