FICTION

My Beirut | Rabih Alameddine

Soap and Ambergris | Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

Hook Island Traveler | Chris Everley

Mercy | Joshua Furst

Concrete History | Aleksandar Hemon

One Small Thing | Daniel Kehlmann

The Nurse and the Novelist | Anya Ulinich

Reunion | Xiaolu Guo

Their Last Visitor | Young-ha Kim


CONVERSATIONS

Changing the Subject
Rabih Alameddine & Aleksandar Hemon

The Story of the Story
Péter Esterházy &  Wayne Koestenbaum

Narrative Heat
Jeffrey Eugenides & Daniel Kehlmann

Shadow Lines
Ian McEwan & Steven Pinker

Taking Sides   
Nuruddin Farah, Elias Khoury & Albert Mobilio


DRAMA

A Little Explosion | George Packer

At the Door of the Dead | Sarah Ruhl


TRIBUTES & REMARKS

Chinua Achebe: Alive in the World
Chris Abani, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ha Jin, and Colum McCann
Fiction and remarks by China Achebe

Ghost Writers | Cynthia Ozick

Inland Exiles | Marie Ponsot

Home Truths | Francine Prose

POETRY

Evening Prayer | Shimon Adaf

They Didn’t Ask: What’s After Death, Nothing Pleases Me | Mahmoud Darwish

Cope’s Rule, Magpie Lark, Nepenthe | Kimiko Hahn

Proof of Kindness, Checkpoint | Fady Joudah

An Escape Artist | Joe Ricky Knight

Together We’ll Sit in the Kitchen | Osip Mandelstam

Guide for Travelers | Víctor Rodríguez Núñez

ESSAY & MEMOIR

Baghdad, Damascus, Atlanta | Ahmed Ali

Wayward Surmises | Wayne Koestenbaum

Lonesome Cowboys | Surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation