From Magyar Lettre Internationale, a man looks at photographs of his youth in pre-war Budapest. Above all he remembers his love, the seductive Jolika. Yet memory is tainted by sorrow as it becomes clear that this is a story of loss and displacement. The patriarch of Muscovite conceptualism: The Russian artist and writer Dimitri Prigov is dead. Erich Klein, his friend and German translator, remembers one of the most important poets of the late and post-Soviet era. From The Hindu, better known for his Civil Society initiatives, Vithal Rajan’s literary works also show his empathy for the human condition. Made in China, read worldwide: A new generation of Chinese novelists is creating a publishing sensation abroad. Literary Follies: Hong Kong's competing literati count their coups. Open Letter is the University of

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