This month we spotlight writing from the islands of Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar, and Mayotte. Francophone writing in the region dates back to the eighteenth century; the coexistence of French with the area's other languages (Creole, Malagasy, Arabic, and Hindi), and its relationship to French colonialism, inflect writers' thematic, stylistic, and syntactic choices. See how J. William Cally, Ananda Devi, Nassuf Djailani, Michel Ducasse, Boris Gamaleya, Alain Gordon-Gentil, Carpanin Marimoutou and Françoise Vergès, Esther Nirina, Barlen Pyamootoo, Jean-Luc Raharimanana, and Umar Timol imaginatively engage with this complex heritage. We thank our guest editor, Françoise Lionnet, for assembling this fine collection. Elsewhere, Mauritian writer Nathacha Appanah joins Etgar Keret and Wojciech Jagielski in writing from cities not their own. And we deliver the third installment of Sakumi Tamaya's "Hole in the Garden."
Fiction Serial
Writers in Other Cities
Ludwig and I Kill Hitler for No Reason (or, A Berlin Springtime)
"Adolf, it's you, I didn't recognize you at first without the ridiculous mustache."
Book Reviews
Adania Shibli’s “We Are All Equally Far from Love”
"We Are All Equally Far From Love" is hypnotically visceral in its accrual of mundane details
Insularity, Mobility, and Imagination: Writing from the Indian Ocean
Francophone writing in the Mascarene region dates back to the eighteenth century.
