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World Literatures Feature Writer: Susan Whelan

Curious about history’s greatest novelists, like Leo Tolstoy? Interested in contemporary writers making headlines, such as Orhan Pamuk? Striving to understand fundamental texts, like the Koran or Plato’s Republic, from a literary perspective? Want the skinny on brilliant poets and authors yet to be discovered outside their country, such as Erendiz Atasu? Just looking for a good book?

This is the place.

World Literature is a dynamic subject that eliminates boundaries. Vast literary movements and modest stories; pop lit and themes of the human condition; authors rooted in a country and world citizens - they all belong here. This is the topic for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction from around the globe.

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Feature Writer Articles in World Literatures

Review – Little White Slips by Karen Hitchcock
This collection of short stories highlights the many facets of womanhood as an individual and in roles of wife, mother, daughter and sister.
Book Review – I Lost my Mobile at the Mall
Australian author Wendy Harmer introduces fun-loving 15-year-old Elly, who believes she is facing social death when her parents won't replace her lost mobile phone.
Book Review – Lenny and the Big Red Kinan
This simple story teaches children the Awabakal words for creatures and things they might find on a walk through the Australian bush.
Book Review – Mama's Song by Ben Beaton
Estranged from her parents, pregnant, confused and tired, Georgina wants to run away but discovers that there are some things you can't leave behind.
Book Review – The Many Conditions of Love
Farahad Zama once again takes readers to the Indian city of Vizag in this charming story about the complicated nature of love, romance and family responsibilities.


Contributing Articles in World Literatures

10 Multicultural Novels for Book Groups
A short list of recent multicultural books by noted authors, with suggestions for enrichment activities that book groups and literature classes will enjoy.
Madame Bovary: Book Review
In the tradition of early realist writers such as Balzac and Zola, the French novelist Gustave Flaubert sought to write a novel rooted in reality and versimilitude.
Review – I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
Young - Ha Kim's short novel is a dark reflection of modern Korea and its disaffected youth.
Book Review: Sonechka, by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Russian author Ludmila Ulitskaya writes poignant, telling descriptions of her characters in Sonechka: A Novella and Stories.
Review – I Love Dollars And Other Stories
Zhu Wen's collection of short stories is a great introduction to modern Chinese literature.