Pratishtha Pandya considers how different languages and translation have influenced her writing and the way she thinks about language.

Ten recent books in translation that the readers in your life are sure to enjoy this holiday season.

Clara Burghelea talks with Sean Cotter about his recently published translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's novel Solenoid.

Deniz Dağdelen Düzgün talks with Nathalie Handal about the 8,000-year history of Izmir, the city's rich blend of cultures, and the invention of parchment.

Poet Bharat Trivedi contemplates the history of the city of Ahmedabad, translated from the Gujarati by Mira Desai.

In this poem by Kankanaey Igorot poet Gawani Gaongen, water is both a source of life and a threat to survival.

A survivor of nuclear war who has spent twenty-five years underground emerges to discover a new world in this novel excerpt by Malaysian author Fahd Razy.

This week, Deep Vellum publishes Motherfield, a poetry collection and Belarusian protest diary by Julia Cimafiejeva. In this poem, translated by Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib, the poet explores her separation from family and homeland.

A car garage becomes a place of wonder in this excerpt from Hasmukh Shah's memoir From the Margins of History, translated from the Gujarati by Mira Desai.

Eric M. B. Becker speaks with ko ko thett, coeditor of the anthology Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring, about witness poetry and writers’ resistance to government persecution in Myanmar.

In this witness poem from the anthology Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring, Burmese poet Nga Ba finds that repression always leads to resistance.

Cassandra Atherton talks with Nathalie Handal about literature, lockdown, and hidden cities in Melbourne, Australia.

In this excerpt of Sevgi Soysal’s 1975 novel Dawn, a woman serving out an exile sentence in a hotel receives a fateful dinner invitation.

Aida Ahadiany contributes two pieces from the protests.

I thought about the eyes of the girl standing tall with her cut hair. Suddenly, the sun rose.

Zia Nabavi reflects on the experience of political prisoners in Iran as protests roil the country.

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Denmark, Argentina, Palestine, Mexico, and Poland.

Samantha Schnee speaks with Khairani Barokka, the new editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, about her goals for the publication's future.

Two poems by Jayesh Solanki, a poet and activist who envisioned a different future for Dalit and marginalized communities in India.

As a writer, the only fidelity you swear is to the text: the text is king and you have to be careful not to frighten it away with your preconceptions and expectations.

Fiction came to us from the West. Creativity did not.

Once a book is published, the story no longer belongs to me.

Shame on you, boys. Dullards. A girl has outdone you all.”

No matter where you are in the city, the time of year or weather, the sky at dusk will stop you in your tracks.

and where do they make this tenderness / as the war rages on around them?

For Sámi literature to continue playing its essential role in our culture and to expand its benefits, we need more writers, readers, and translators, which is impossible without support—both financially and through the education system.

Languages are particularly challenging to exhibit physically in museums—how then to tell the story of our most precious forms of intangible cultural heritage in a tangible form?

Love doesn’t exist before marriage, Ramla. It’s time you come back down to earth.

The children ask where they are going. They, too, have begun to grasp that they are not heading home.

We want to showcase the best translations from South Asia, and help make visible authors, translators, and literature that are still largely invisible outside of South Asia.