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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.
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Contributing Articles in World Literatures

 		The Death of Bunny Munro – Book Review
Nick Cave's Second Novel Combines His Usual Melancholy Madness With a Multi Layered Pop Culture Panorama
The Fall Keeps On Rising
Fifty years after his tragic death, Albert Camus's The Fall is still a relevant critique of human behavior and human society, and a novel of ideas writers can aspire to.
Five Fantastic Short Stories
Not everyone has the time these days to sit down and enjoy a good novel. For those of us with busy lives, or just really short attention spans, short stories are the way
Literary Technique – Onomatopoeia
Writers who want to describe a person, place, thing, or idea can use an onomatopoeia. Using sound for description and meaning helps readers enter the author's world.
Kafka's Manner of Reading and Interpretation
By examining how Franz Kafka approaches reading and his own view about the fictional process, one might get important clues about this author's work, themes, and ideas.
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