Xavier Valcárcel considers questions of solitude and care in this dreamlike poem.

This World Kid Lit Month, join us for a tour of Asia with the best of translated Asian literature for young people, including picture books, middle-grade and YA fiction, and graphic novels.

As the anniversary of Mahsa-Jina Amini's killing approaches, Poupeh Missaghi brings WWB's #WomanLifeFreedom series to a close with a reflection on how the ongoing protests have changed Iran and how much more work remains to be done.

Samantha Farmer is recognized for their translation of a subversive queer Croatian novel.

The natural world brings both profit and ominous change to a village in this narrative by prominent Assamese writer Yeshe Dorje Thongchi, a finalist for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation.

Translator and repentant Aries Soje views a galaxy of translation and writing stars through an astrological lens in this witty poem.

Algerian poet Souad Labbize pens a sequence of love poems to the voice of a female singer.

A woman is captured by a malevolent water spirit in Bernardino Pérez Miranda's retelling of a folktale from San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, named a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity site in 2008.

Prize-winning science-fiction writer Han Song imagines a train station turned uncontrollably reproductive.

WWB talks with our marketing and communications manager, Anna Claire Weber, about the writers she loves, her experience as a bookseller, and her current writing projects.

For Women in Translation Month, a dozen translators recommend recent favorite books written and translated by women.

In this poem, Argentinian writer Mariana Spada echoes the questions and comments she receives about her trans identity from the people around her.

Jean D'Amérique's dark twist on the lullaby decries the state of the Haitian government.

Tobias Carroll recommends new and exciting reads from Angola, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

These days Kriol is a song many people do not want to sing

Femicide remains largely invisible in both academic literature and popular narratives in the United States. Why?

Mohammad is torn between fear and excitement. He doesn’t know this man. What if he’s an informant?

They were marching along a man with his hands tied behind his back and a tall paper hat on his head.

She has an innocence, a purity of mind like a delicate glass vessel, untainted by soiled ideas or thoughts.

An anthology like this challenges literary marketing and literary history.

In Switzerland people tend to be reticent, but reticence is—from both literary and theoretical perspectives—the best starting point for sudden passion.

He smoked incessantly. I watched him with a silent longing.

gardens are in bloom: cherries, oranges, mandarins / I talked through three phone cards in three days

Tobias Carroll recommends new and forthcoming books translated from Arabic, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

I came here looking for the East Berlin I saw across the Berlin Wall in 1987 as an eighth grader on an exchange program.

In a series of pen-and-ink drawings, Iranian artist Syd Fini portrays key figures in the country's ongoing Woman Life Freedom protests.

With no one around me but people who were prisoners of their land, I had suddenly come across someone who was free.

Seeing their community divided into two camps, some dogs developed a strange arrogance.

We all know that translation is inevitably a collaborative practice: it’s writing, but it's writing in company.

Thirty years had passed: who can recall all the minutiae of such a long-ago heartbreak?