This month we present new writing by members of the Oulipo, the innovative Parisian literary collective devoted to liberating language through constraints.
Ian Monk tours a building floor by floor and line by line
Jacques Bens makes sonnets easy as pi
Anne F. Garréta goes rogue with Remembrance of Things Past and more by François Caradec, Daniel Levin Becker, Michèle Métail, and Olivier Salon. In our special feature, Max Shmookler introduces Sudanese writing of estrangement by Nagi Al-Badawi, Adel Gassas, and Sabah Babiker Ibraheem Sanhouri. And Sayumi Takama delivers the second installment of "Spirit Summoning."
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Image: Killoffer, "La Manif," 2009. Graphite on Paper 48 x 63 cm, courtesy of Galerie Anne Barrault.
The City and the Writer: In Kingston, Jamaica with Kwame Dawes
Can you describe the mood of Kingston as you feel/see it?
Kingston is a city full of people getting on with life. And life is challenging.more>>>
Elisa Wouk Almino reviewsGuillermo Rosales's Leapfrog & Other Stories
Leapfrog & Other Stories is the last of what’s left of the Cuban writer Guillermo Rosales. more>>>
WWB: The Best of the First Ten Years
Buy a copy of our new e-anthology with some of our favorite work from our first ten years.
George Fragopoulos reviewsRobert Walser's A Schoolboy's Diary
There is an inevitable period of adjustment when reading the work of Robert Walser. more>>>
