Mosab Abu Toha talks with Nathalie Handal about hope, reconstruction, and poetry in Gaza.

As he obsesses over his interpretation of Schubert, a man collects strands of hair he finds around his apartment in an excerpt from Verena Rossbacher's novel Verlangen nach Drachen.

Essayist Diego Rodríguez Landeros sniffs out the relationship between populist revolutions and foul-smelling metropolises, namely Paris and Mexico City.

Tobias Carroll recommends new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from Argentina, Germany, Iraq, Italy, and South Korea.

A dreamy, bookish boy tries to make sense of his surroundings with the help of words and storytelling in Amit Dutta's novel, a finalist for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation.

Dutch poet Babeth Fonchie Fotchind remembers the women in her family and evokes her family's immigration from Cameroon to the Netherlands in these two poems.

Karim Kattan talks with Nathalie Handal about borders, oral storytelling, and tropicality in Jericho.

In this excerpt of Sabda Armandio's futuristic crime novel 24 Hours with Gaspar, a writer begins investigating a mysterious criminal named Gaspar.

Dutch poet Alfred Schaffer remembers his parents and evokes his Aruban ancestors in these two poems.

Jaime Huenún Villa remembers his Huilliche-Mapuche ancestors and their wise way of being in the territory.

An Adivasi widow is forced to join her son and daughter-in-law in the city in this excerpt from Siddique Alam's collection The Kettledrum.

Felipe Franco Munhoz follows two pandemic-bound neighbors seeking connection through a window in this installment of our Time Signatures series.

In this excerpt from a serialized novel by pseudonymous Iraqi author Shalash, a woman's beloved elephant catches the attention of Iraq's political elites for its potential applications during wartime.

A neglected wife and mother has an unexpected reaction to her daughter’s partner in this story by Indonesian writer Laksmi Pamuntjak.

In these three poems, Nisrine Mbarki contemplates her parents' life as immigrants in the Netherlands and their tumultuous relationship.

Baba Badji tells Nathalie Handal about the literary (and not-so-literary) highlights of Ziguinchor, Senegal, from the city's beloved authors and libraries to its late-night eateries.

In this essay excerpted from the forthcoming The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays, Lhashamgyal grapples with questions of belonging, identity, and exile.

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Brazil, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Sudan.

Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the election of three new members to its Board of Directors this spring: Agnes Ahlander Turner, Merve Emre, and Enid Prasad.

WWB’s Samantha Schnee speaks with Will Forrester of English PEN about the goals of the PEN Presents program and its impact on the international literary landscape thus far.

Adriana Paredes Pinda considers the power and implications of writing, what it means to exist between languages, and the lasting effects of colonialism on the Mapuche people.

In the final installment of the special Sicily series of the City and the Writer, Edvige Giunta talks with Nathalie Handal about environmental destruction and the many layers of history—literary and otherwise—in Gela.

Speech and solitude intertwine in this poem by Ukraine's Iryna Shuvalova.

In this story by Fatma Shafii, a woman grows increasingly anxious as she awaits her lover, who is supposed to meet her parents for the first time.

WWB's annual award for the promotion of international literature will go to Daniel Hahn this year.

Three short poems by Uyghur poet Imran Sada'i consider how our thoughts and emotions inhabit the world around us.

Daniela Catrileo reaffirms the existence of Mapuche literature—historically considered static or even nonexistent—as a vital, diverse, and growing body of work.

Literature and, inevitably, theater, have belonged to Siracusa since its Greek colonization.

She was golden. As was her writing, which will live on forever.

Everyone around me spoke both languages and we could move back and forth between them almost unconsciously, which is why I often say that my real first language is Spanglish.