January/February 2017 United States twenty years after the collapse

twenty years after the collapse of the regime

with new books by Shokoofeh Azar

German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck maps the blind spots of globalization

and the cover feature devoted to Literary Activism commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Alcatraz occupation that began in November 1969

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January/February 2017 United States twenty years after the collapseVolume 91 No. 1, January 2017 World Literature Today opens 2017 with a bang, featuring a career spanning interview with poet and translator Carolyn Forch and an in depth talk with comics writer and novelist Alan Moore on his latest book, Jerusalem. We also bring the Neustadt Festival into your home with the keynote talk from 2016 winner Dubravka Ugrei as well as tributes to her work from Alison Anderson and Chad Post. Julia Fiedorczuk continues our