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An abstract woodcut in bold colors: yellow, red, blue, green, and black.

"Composition," 1914–15, by Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest. Color woodcut on Japan paper. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art. Public domain.

Exile and Communion: Literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora

Guest editor Thuy Dinh introduces WWB’s new issue “Untethered States: Literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora.”

A photo of two reels in a cinematographer's room.

Photo by Noom Peerapong on Unsplash..

Theater at Cồn Market

By Thường Quán

Movie house or makeshift booth, you are the temple we urchins worship

Translated from Vietnamese by Thuy Dinh

Multilingual

Portrait of writer Paul Hetherington reading from a book in front of a microphone

Photo: FUKAHORI Mizuho

The City and the Writer: In Canberra with Paul Hetherington

By Nathalie Handal

The city is ghosted by otherness, living in the shadow of the many world cities that preceded its planning and influenced its conception and development.

Portrait of writer Cassandra Atherton

The City and the Writer: In Melbourne with Cassandra Atherton

By Nathalie Handal

There is a restlessness in the city that I have grown to love—it’s like a swaying cat’s tail.

Multimedia

Portrait of writer Fiona Kelly McGregor with a black cat

Photo copyright © Jamie James

The City and the Writer: In Sydney with Fiona Kelly McGregor

By Nathalie Handal

No matter where you are in the city, the time of year or weather, the sky at dusk will stop you in your tracks.

Both Freedom and Constraint: An Interview with Randa Abdel-Fattah

By Nathalie Handal

The older I get, the more I realize how hybridized my cultural identity is.

If You See Fatima

By Jamal Khambar

Say, after her death, we lit our epic poems on fire.

Translated from Kurdish by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse & Soran Azad

Thangara

He roamed the land eating men.

Translated from Yindjibarndi by Shon Arieh-Lerer

Rosa

Homesickness brought my grandfather back to Venice where my father, Rosario de la Savoia, was born.