A new issue of Words Without Borders is out. Brad Baumgartner (IUP): Recovering Resentment: A Reflection on Disgust, Empathy, and Milton's Satan. William S. Haney II (AUS): Consciousness and the Posthuman in Short Fiction; and an essay on the wisdom of Shakespeare’s fools. And the Beat goes on: A forged will sends Jack Kerouac scholars, fans, collectors, literary executors, and lawyers on the warpath. Sappho, the great poet of the personal: Hardly any of the Greek poet's work survives, but the fragments that remain are enough to make her immortal. From The Guardian, an article on Leo Tolstoy, the forgotten genius; there's more to Tolstoy than War and Peace; and do today's novelists think Tolstoy is the greatest writer of all time? From Harper's, Elif Batuman on the murder of Leo Tolstoy: A forensic investigation.

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