In Hendri Yulius Wijaya’s lyrical meditation, the butterfly becomes a mirror for class, queerness, and kinship.

Farishta Salehi tells the story of a liberating friendship that gives a young woman a renewed sense of agency.

On June 3, Christopher Merrill accepted the 2025 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature at a ceremony in New York City.

Poet Tom Sleigh offers an encomium for Christopher Merrill, the winner of the 2025 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.

Guest editor Thuy Dinh introduces WWB's new issue “Untethered States: Literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora.”

Pollock-Krasner Prize–winning artist Trần Trọng Vũ contributes three paintings (as well as cover art) to WWB's issue “Untethered States: Literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora.”

A long time ago, I made a promise to the rivers, the sea, and my loved ones that I would return.

Nonfiction by Iman Mersal, poetry by Lee Min-ha, and fiction by Yang Hao: Tobias Carroll recommends all this and more in his May Watchlist.

The ultimate vanishing will happen eventually, but for now, let's light this candle.

Father had been directing my life all the way from Sài Gòn.

Although she was ostensibly a typist, her job actually demanded more situational acumen, intangible finesse.

Movie house or makeshift booth, you are the temple we urchins worship

Your summer reading list is here: Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp recommends ten new books in translation for parents and children alike, from madcap picture books to YA speculative fiction.

This book offers a rather pitiless vision of human endeavor: mystery, duty, momentum, undoing.

That day, blood spilled for the first time on a sweeping path in Ctesiphon.

Everything I said could be turned against me. Everything I said could become otherwise.

Nobody comprehended the storm raging within him.

A dystopian novel from Hong Kong, Canadian graphic nonfiction, new poetry from Palestine, and more: Tobias Carroll on this month's notable releases in translation.

He had many friends, but to pour his heart out to, he had no one.

What has been happening in Georgia makes me very, very unhappy indeed.

WWB's annual award for the promotion of international literature will be awarded to Christopher Merrill in 2025.

I found some of the work here challenged my thinking of Caribbean Hindustani language and culture, poetry, and the translational act, and I am here for all of this.

No, I began to realize, there was no escaping this woman.

A border-dweller is someone for whom the existence of a limit is not a reason to stop.

Salty sea wind opens the nostrils, licks the screeching sole of the ear

Whose deviation from the standard is art and whose is error?

We became an entity. Encapsulated. We isolated the world.

“What we need is a particular essay. What good will scandal do you?”

my abdomen became thin, transparent, like the georgette I was wearing

Tobias Carroll rounds up the latest in international literature, from Saou Ichikawa's novel of disability and sex to Tierno Monénembo's story of a Guinean woman in exile.