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CATEGORIES (also see below): armchair travel; anthologies; translations; short stories; literature; essays; Hebrew and Jewish literature; Czechoslovakia; homosexual; Cuba; Havana Literary Travel Companions Amsterdam: edited by Manfred Wolf. Contributros: Cees Nooteboom, J.J. Voskuil, Simon Carmiggelt, J. Bernlef, Martin Bril, Remco Campert, Marion Bloem, Maarten 't Hart, Geert Mak, Hermine Landvreugd, Gerrit Komrij, Bas Heijne, Lizzy Sara May, Gerard Reve, Marga Minco, Harry Mulisch, Hafid Bouazza Australia: edited by Robert Ross. Contributors: Thea Astley, Murray Bail, Barbara Baynton, Peter Carey, Eleanor Dark, Robert Drewe, Helen Garner, Xavier Herbert, Janette Turner Hospital, Elizabeth Jolley, C.J. Koch, David Malouf, Oodgeroo and Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Henry Lawson, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Steele Rudd, Mandy Sayer, Arthur Upfield, Judah Waten, Archie Weller, Patrick White, Michael Wilding, Tim Winton, B. Wongar Chile: edited by Katherine Silver. Contributors: Luis Alberto Acuña, Marjorie Agosín, Roberto Ampuero, Marta Brunet, Francisco Coloane, Adolfo Couve, José Donoso, Ariel Dorfman, Jorge Edwards, Beatriz García-Huidobro, Pedro Lemebel, Patricio Manns, Tito Matamala, Pablo Neruda, Darío Oses, Hernán Rivera Letelier, Patricio Riveros Olavarría, Osvaldo Rodríguez Musso, Enrique Valdés, and José Miguel Varas China: edited by Kirk A. Denton. Contributor: Alai, Lu Xan, Mao Dun, Zhang Ailing, Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, Shen Congwen, Mo Yan, Wang Shuo, Chu TÕien-shin, Xi Xi, and Yan Lianke. Costa Rica: edited by Barbara Ras; foreword by Oscar Arias. Contributors: Alfredo Aguilar, Fernando Duran Ayanegui, Alfonso Chase, Quince Duncan, Fabian Dobles, Louis Ducoudray, Carlos Luis Fallas, Mario Gonzales Feo, Joaquin Gutierrez, Carlos Salazar Herrera, Max Jimenez, Carmen Lyra, Carmen Naranjo, Yolanda Oreamuno, Abel Pacheco, Julieta Pinto, Uriel Quesada, Samuel Rovinski, Jose; Leon Sanchez, and Rima de Vallbona Cuba: edited by Ann Louise Bardach. Contributors: Luis Aguilar León, María Eugenia Algería Nuñez, Uva de Aragón, Reinaldo Arenas, Richard Blanco, Lino Novás Calvo, Calvert Casey, Alfonso Hernández Catá,Josefina de Diego, Abilio Estévez, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Cristina Garcia, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, José Lezama Lima, Pablo Medina,Ana Menéndez, Ernesto Mestre, Mayra Montero, Achy Objejas Greece, edited by Artemis Leontis. Contributors: Elli Alexiou, Melpo Axioti, Odysseus Elytis, Michel Faïs, Eugenia Fakinou, Rhea Galanaki, Marios Hakkas, Dimitris Hatzis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Margarita Karapanou, Alexandra Papadopoulou, George Seferis, Vassilis Vassilikos, Ilias Venezis, Leonidas Zenakos, Yiorgos Chouliaras, Georgios Drosinis, Yorgos Ioannou, Christoforos Milionis, Kostas Ouranis, Thanassis Valtinos, Eva Vlami, Manolis Xexakis Israel: edited by Michael Gluzman and Naomi Seidman; foreword by Robert Alter. Contributors: Gafi Amir, Yossi Avni, Yosl Birstein, Orly Castel-Bloom, David Ehrlich, David Grossman, Shulamith Hareven, Etgar Kerrett, Yoram Kolerstein, Yitzchak Laor, Amos Oz, Ofra Riesenfeld, Gadi Taub, and A. B. Yehoshua Italy: edited by James Mc Elroy. Contributors: Contributors TK Japan: edited by Jeffrey Angles & J. Thomas Rimer, foreword by Donald Richie; Tōkyō: Hino Keizō Jacob's Tōkyō Ladder; Maruya Saiichi The Obtuse Young Man; Northern Honshū: Inoue Yasushi Under the Shadow of Mt. Bandai; Ōsaka: Oda Sakunosuke The City of Trees; Miyamoto Teru The Swallows' Nest; Kōbe: Tada Chimako The Garden that Spirited My Dog Away; Kyōto: Atōda Takashi The Destiny of Shoes; Kumano: Nakagami Kenji The Immortal; The Sea of Japan Coast: Mizukami Tsutomu One Night with Mother; Kyūshū: Kawabata Yasunari Yumiura; Takahashi Mutsuo The Snow of Memory; Okinawa: Shima Tsuyoshi Bones. Translators: Lawrence Rogers, Dennis Keene, Stephen W. Kohl, Burton Watson, Anthony Hood Chambers, Jeffrey Angles, Millicent M. Horton, Mark Harbison, Kyoko Omori, Michael Emmerich, William J. Tyler Mexico: edited by C. M. Mayo (aka Catherine Mansell) THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER -- Tecate: Daniel Reveles Big Caca's Revenge; Ciudad Juárez: Carlos Fuentes Malintzin of the Maquilas; THE NORTH -- In the State of Sinaloa: Inés Arredondo The Silent Words; In the State of Chihuahua: Jesús Gardea According to Evaristo; The Northern Desert: Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo The Green Bottle; Baja California: Agustín Cadena Lady of the Seas; C. M. Mayo Rancho Santa Inés: Fast!; CENTRAL MEXICO -- Mexico City: Carlos Monsiváis Identity Hour or, What Photos Would You Take of the Endless City?; Juan Villoro One-Way Street; Guadalupe Loaeza Oh, Polanco!; Fernando del Paso The Emperor in Miravalle; Near Cuernavaca, Morelos: Mónica Lavín Day and Night; In the State of Puebla: Pedro Ángel Palou Huaquechula; Ángeles Mastretta Aunt Elena; Morelia, Michoacán: Raúl Mejía Banquets; Guadalajara, Jalisco: Martha Cerda And One Wednesday; Querétaro (in the Bajío): Araceli Ardón It Is Nothing of Mine; ALONG THE GULF OF MEXICO -- In the State of Tabasco: Bruno Estañol Fata Morgana; In the State of Veracruz: Ilan Stavans Twins; Raymundo Hernández-Gil Tarantula; SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST -- Acapulco: Julieta Campos She Has Reddish Hair and Her Name Is Sabina; Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca: Alberto Ruy Sánchez Vigil in Tehuantepec; Chiapas: Rosario Castellanos Tenebrae Service; YUCATÁN -- Laura Esquivel Swift as Desire Prague: edited by Paul Wilson. Contributors: Michal Ajvaz, Karel Capek, Ivan Divis, Jaroslav Hasek, Daniela Hodrova, Bohumil Hrabal, Alois Jirasek, Franz Kafka, Jiri Karasek ze Lvovic, Egon Erwin Kisch, Ivan Klima, Jiri Kovtun, Frantisek Langer, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Neruda, Karel Pecka, Ota Pavel, Josef Skvorecky, Jindriska Smetanova, Jachym Topol, Jiri Weil Vietnam: edited by John Balaban and Nguyen Qui Duc. Contributors: Nguyen Huy Thiep, Linh Bao, Nguyen Ba Trac, Thich Duc Thien, Ho Anh Thai, Le Minh Khue, Doan Quoc Sy, Vu Bao, Duong Thu Huong, Andrew Q. Lam, Nguyen Qui Duc, Qui The, Bao Ninh, and Pham Thi Hoai Gay Travels (foreword by Felice Picano) and Lesbian Travels (foreword by Rebecca Brown), edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Contributors (Gay Travels): James Baldwin, Brian Bouldrey, Hanns Ebensten, Philip Gambone, Erasmo Guerra, Andrew Holleran, Cary Alan Johnson, Adam Klein, Michael Lowenthal, Rondo Mieczkowski, Paul Monette, Michael Nava, Achim Nowak, Joe Orton, Darieck Scott, David Tuller, and Edmund White. Contributors (Lesbian Travels): Donna Allegra, Judith Barrington, Nisa Donnelly, Marianne Dresser, Margaret Erhart, Sonja Franeta, Sarah Grossman, Sarah Jacobus, Audre Lorde, Carole Maso, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Terri de la Pena, Susan Fox Rogers, Marianna Romo-Carmona, Becky Shine, Linda Smuckler, Evelyn white, and Barbara Wilson. Pico Iyer Foreword; Brian Bouldrey Preface; Abigail Seymour Ultreya; Malcolm X Mecca; Alice Walker Looking for Zora; Alane Salierno Mason Holy City; Marvin Barrett Climbing to Christmas; Rachel Kadish Reparation Spoken Here?; Gretel Ehrlich The Road to Emei Shan; John Hanson Mitchell Providence Hill; Barbara Wilson Joshua Tree; Michael Wolfe When Men and Mountains Meet; Satish Kumar Iona; Anne Cushman Spiritual Discomfort; Oliver Statler Japanese Pilgrimage; Jennifer Lash Lourdes; Gary Paul Nabhan La Verna's Wounds; Pilgrimage, , Mecca, Costa Rica translators: Kirk Anderson, Zoe Anglesey, Gabriel Berns, Linda Britt, Pamela Carmell, Leland H. Chambers, Carol Christensen, James Hoggard, John Incledon, Will Kirkland, Angele McEwan, Mary Gomez Parham, Barbara Paschke, Margaret Sayers Peden, Mathew Quilter, Mark Schafer Chile translators: Katherine Silver, Dick Cluster, Lisa Dillman, Nancy Abraham Hall, Alfred MacAdam, David Petreman, Hardie St. Martin Cuba translators: Gregory Rabassa, Cola Franzen, Natasha Wimmer, John H. R. Polt, Dick Cluster, Sabina Cienfuegos, Raymond Sayers, David Frye , Edith Grossman, Lisa Davis, Barbara Paschke (emailed), Ann Tashi Slater , Andrew Hurley, Peter Bush Greece translators: Mary Kitroë, Gerasimus Katsan, John Chioles, Peter Bien, Nicholas Kostis, Jane Assimakopoulos, C. Capri-Karka, Helen Dendrinou Kolias, Alison Cadbury, David Vere, Edmund Keeley and Phiip Sherrard, Cynthia Hohlfelder, Calliope Doxiadis, Theodore Sampson, Artemis Leontis, Yiorgios Anagnostu, Yianna Liatsos, Catherine Siskron, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Anastasia Koumidou, Karen Van Dyck, H. E. Criton Israel translators: Barbara Harshav, Rachel Jacoby, Azzan Meir-Levi, Maurie Goldberg-Bartura, E. Arnon, Michael Gluzman and Naomi Seidman, Marsha Pomerantz, Sheila Jellen, Barbara Mann, Hillel Halkin, Haim Watzman, Azzan Meir-Levi Prague translators: Paul Wilson, A.G. Brain (Alice and Gerald Turner), Norma (Bean) Comrada, Michael Henry Heim, Peter Kussi, Mike Mitchell, Marie Winn, Alex Zucker Vietnam translators: Greg Lockhart, Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPherson, Nguyen Qui Duc, Ho Anh Thai and Wayne Karlin, Dana Sachs and Bach Hoai Tran, Nguyen Nguyet Cam, Vo-Dinh Mai, Tran Qui Phiet, Nguyen Van Khang, Peter Zinoman, Jim Carlson Amsterdam translators: Wanda Boeke, David Colmer, Sam Garrett, James S Holmes, Richard Huijing, Virginie M. Kortekaas, Hans van Marle, Ina Rilke, Jeannette K. Ringold, Johan Pieter Snapper, Tineke Thio, Paul Vincent, Diane Webb, Claire Nicolas White, and Manfred Wolf.