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Issue 8 Table of Contents
EVENTS

Inventing the Past
Arthur Japin, Laila Lalami, Colum McCann, and Imma Monsó

Voyage and Voyeur
Alain de Botton, Paul Holdengräber, Ma Jian, and Ilija Trojanow

In the Beginning
David Grossman, Milton Hatoum, Colum McCann, Ann Provoost, and Jeanette Winterson

Imaginary Geographies
Daniel Alarcón, Arthur Japin, Tatyana Tolstaya, and Deborah Treisman


CONVERSATIONS

The Messiness of Now
Ilija Trojanow & Amitava Kumar

Imagine That!
Etgar Keret & George Saunders

Collage Education
Rodrigo Fresán & Jonathan Lethem

The Whole Circle
Vikram Chandra, Kiran Desai & Rachel Donadio

The Space Between
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Radhika Jones & Caryl Phillips


TRIBUTES

Ryszard Kapuściński Foreign Correspondence

Great Escapes | Salman Rushdie
Artist of the Pixel | Philip Gourevitch
The Vulnerable ‘I’ | Carolin Emcke

Where Life Happens: Remembering Grace Paley

The Loudest Voice | Francine Prose
Graceness | Michael Cunningham
The Better News | Gerry Albarellia
On the Corner | Eve Ensler
Beloved Busybody | Vera Williams
Fiercer Living | Nora Paley


FICTION

The Acrobat
Wu Ming

Bwana Burton’s Binoculars
Ilija Trojanow

The Discovery of America
Paul LaFarge

Myth Milk
Rabin’s Dead
Etgar Keret

Safekeeping
Chris Abani

To Be Saved
Aminatta Forna

Peter Pan’s Death Leap
Rodrigo Fresán

I Invented Rome
Arthur Japin

My Life So Far
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Love
Grace Paley


POETRY

How She Penetrates
Maggie Nelson

Leadbelly Poems
Tyehimba Jess

Historical Memory
Kirmen Uribe

The Use of Recent World Events Considered
Everything She Asks of Me
Daphne Gottlieb

Trimmings
from Muse & Drudge
Harryette Mullen

Regression in die Ursuppe
Tadeusz Różewicz

Gone But Not Forgiven
Legacy
Elaine Equi

Trees
In the Absence of Dictionaries
Jennifer Tseng

I Went out Walking
Grace Paley


ESSAYS

Gandhi Gets the Job Done
Amitava Kumar

Wanderers
Ryszard Kapuściński

Realist Fiction
George Saunders

Roadsongs
Julio Cortázar

A Life in Ten Chapters
Caryl Phillips


DRAMA

Pop Music
Petr Zelenka


REMARKS

A Good African
Chris Abani

Arrivals
Pico Iyer

Scratching the Surface
Helen Oyeyemi

The Life of a Word
Shahriar Mandanipour

Underground
Marilynne Robinson

 


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