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ntroduction | |
Wendy Lesser | |
BANGLA | |
The Way Back Bharati Mukherjee | |
Chinese | |
Yes and No Amy Tan | |
Czech | |
Trouble with Language Josef Skvorecky | |
Dutch | |
Circus Biped Bert Keizer | |
French | |
French Without Tears Luc Sante | |
German | |
Prelude Thomas Laqueur | |
Gikuyu | |
Recovering the Original Ngugi wa Thiong'o | |
Greek | |
Split Self Nicholas Papandreou | |
Italian | |
Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald | |
Korean | |
Personal and Singular Ha-yun Jung | |
Polish | |
On Being an Orphaned Writer Louis Begley | |
Russian | |
The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye Gary Shteyngart | |
Scots | |
Boswell and Mrs. Miller James Campbell | |
Spanish | |
Footnotes to a Double Life Ariel Dorfman | |
Yiddish | |
My Yiddish Leonard Michaels | |
About the Contributors | |
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