World Literature Today
There Is Also This Civil War Inside of Me
A Conversation with Zisis Ainalis
9 min |
Summer 2020
World Literature Today
Why Iranians Continue to Seek Refuge in Australia
Shokoofeh Azar moved to Australia as a political refugee in 2010. Her novel The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (see WLT, Spring 2020, 96), originally written in Farsi, was shortlisted for Australia’s 2018 Stella Prize for Fiction and the 2020 International Booker Prize. Here she recalls her refugee journey from Iran to Christmas Island and reveals why Iranians continue migrating to Australia, despite the absence of war.
10+ min |
Summer 2020
World Literature Today
Not Pregnant
In this work of creative nonfiction from Cuba, plague is something common shared with those who lived in Thebes.
5 min |
Summer 2020
World Literature Today
Quarantine Innovations
DURING A CRISIS, books provide solace and hope, offering comfort in the literary world.
2 min |
Summer 2020
World Literature Today
Mapping My Mother
In isolation, a writer connects her mother’s attempt to protect her from “never-being-able-to-leave-Cuba-itis” to her own desire to protect her children amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
5 min |
Summer 2020
World Literature Today
Keeping My Mother Alive
In Greece, a son who has returned to his mother’s home to care for her during the Covid-19 crisis contemplates what the global pandemic can reveal about our character.
10+ min |
Summer 2020
World Literature Today
Broken Novels, Ruptured Worlds
A Conversation with Michelle de Kretser
10+ min |
Summer 2020
World Literature Today
Hands
The mortar landed close, maybe two hundred meters away.
3 min |
Summer 2020
World Literature Today
Desegregating Language - The New Afrikaans Crime Novel
Encountering postapartheid Afrikaans fiction for the first time, particularly the fast-paced crime novels of Deon Meyer, the author finds that the most unexpected element is the new lack of segregation between Afrikaans and English.
7 min |
Summer 2020
World Literature Today
Assembly
The students noticed an opening at the bottom of the fence, a tear in the wires. On the other side of the fence was the outside, which they only saw from the bus window when they were on their way to or from school.
3 min |
Summer 2020
New York magazine
The Quiet Storm
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Old Guard is an unlikely superhero film, both patient and intimate. But she’s always been uncompromising.
10+ min |
June 22 - July 05, 2020
New York magazine
Going Over the Line
In Josephine Decker’s new film, Shirley (and in life generally), being a muse is a trap.
10 min |
June 8-21, 2020
Soap Opera Digest
Young & Restless
Traci returned from a boarding school in the summer of 1982 to spend time with her family before going off to college.
3 min |
June 8, 2020
The Atlantic
Culture & Critics
So Sad, Can’t Stop Laughing
6 min |
June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
Edie Falco– Words to Live By
Actress Edie Falco on the art of not always following the rules
3 min |
May/June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
Dead Heat
With Dead to Me, Liz Feldman has created the best “traumedy” on television.
2 min |
May/June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
The Doctor Is In
As Dr. Maya Jacobs on Carol’s Second Act, Ito Aghayere delivers the laughs.
4 min |
May/June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
The Royal We
Michelle and Robert King, the husband and wife team behind The Good Fight and Evil, are Hollywood’s reigning power couple.
7 min |
May/June 2020
CBS Watch! Magazine
Show Her The Money
Kirsten Dunst schemes her way into our hearts as striving single mom Krystal stubbs on Showtime's On Becoming a God in Central Florida.
9 min |
May/June 2020
Mystery Scene
R.G. BELSKY
Social distancing may have been common among working writers before it was a necessity, but not all members of that tribe adhered to the stereotype.
7 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
What About Murder?
Reference Books Reviewed
5 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
VAL,QUEEN OF SCOTS
ONE OF THE LIVING LEGENDS OF MYSTERY WRITING, VAL McDERMID HAS ENTERTAINED READERS AND DRIVEN THE GENRE FORWARD FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, BUT SHE WAS NO OVERNIGHT SUCCESS
10+ min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
THE BEAUTIFUL DARK
Barry Gifford and the Noir Revival
7 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
the Hook
Intriguing First Lines
3 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
IVY POCHODA
It may seem odd to equate Greek drama and athletics with contemporary mysteries. But author Ivy Pochoda sees a logical intersection with the violence, structure, and drive inherent in these subjects.
10+ min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
PUSHING WATER
Write what you know” is the hoariest piece of writing advice, as well as the one most often misapplied. As Stephen King said in his outstanding book On Writing, what if you want to write about serial killers or intergalactic space flight?
2 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
Grand Dame Guignol
Sometimes over the top, other times way over the top, Grand Dame Guignol was grisly, memorable entertainment buoyed by the sort of movie stars they no longer make: actresses whose talent, intensity, and willingness to take risks with their images made the wildly melodramatic seem frighteningly real.
6 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
EDITH MAXWELL aka MADDIE DAY
Cozies certainly provide solace from many of the dark edges of the actual world,” says Edith Maxwell.
7 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Mystery Scene
AN OATH AND A TERRORIST
It was the late 2000s and the United States government was engaged in a global hunt for Osama bin Laden.
2 min |
Summer #164, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
When Anime Becomes a Refuge For Patriotism
In addition to entertainment, China’s Bilibili offers nationalism to its young audience
5 min |