Special City Series / New York City 2011 If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the…

We're delighted to report that Magdy El Shafee's graphic novel, Metro, will be published by Metropolitan Books in early 2012. Readers will recall that WWB published an extract in February 2008,…

This tiny, tiny kid shot down the right aisle, then under the screen, then popped up the left aisle, to the back of the theater, and started all over again—propeller going all the while.

The barber pulled out a sharpened razor, placed it in his friend's hand, and said, Cut out any piece of my flesh that you like.

Today the six characters will take off their shoes, one by one, and will take their spots on the bed.

I have realized that when a writer emigrates, it takes much longer for him to arrive as a writer than as a person.

That Presence—long feared—was once again in our midst.

Noon is an extravagant abyss.

Your gaze opens the sky. The sun rises and forgets to set.

The wind hands me a pair of wings and tells me to free myself from wings.

He roamed the land eating men.

The Elite Youth Science Squad from North Korea is back for part two of their adventure..

The classic “Mastroianni Day” requires a three-piece suit, dark sunglasses, and, preferably, a hat.

The man might not escape the death penalty. And I had become deeply involved with him and with his crime.

There are two mortal sins in film dubbing.

It felt funny being called a delinquent by a yakuza.

My first encounter with Kjell Askildsen’s marvelous short stories was in 1995, in an anthology called Et stort øde landskap (A Wide Empty Landscape), published by Oktober in 1991.  Their…

The idea of adding a Specials component to The City and the Writer came while I was in Berlin this past winter 2010. Some cities seduce and intrigue so profoundly that you can’t refrain from wanting…

Part of the Special City Series / New York City 2011 If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing…

Peter Bush has been translating the fiction of Teresa Solana since 2005, producing sparkling English versions of many of her stories and two of her comic noirs, A Shortcut to Paradise and A Not So Perfect…

Mass media may often associate comics with blockbuster-movie superheroes and kids’ cartoons, but as evidenced by the diverse works from comics and graphic novel publisher Fantagraphics Books, this…

Kaleidoscope, a marvelous, eye-widening exhibition on the history of Hong Kong comics, is a ten-minute walk down to the river from the center of town. The exhibit is composed of individual units that…

Algerian Kamel Daoud is editor in chief of the French language daily newspaper Quotidien d'Oran, where he writes a daily column, or chronique, under the title “Raina Raikoum” [Our Opinion…

In 2010, as part of the Penguin Classics Series, five new Borges books were released in the states. Last October, three of the editors, Suzanne Jill Levine, Alfred Mac Adam, and Maria Kodama, gathered…

“I’ve never seen an African in a bookstore in France,” said Christophe Ngalle Edimo. “I say African, because whatever country in Africa you’re actually from, the minute you…

The people say: Step down now!

In The Fire of Origins, translated from the French by Lillian Corti and published in 2001, the Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala has produced not so much a novel as a national creation myth. His hero,…

In February 2008, WWB published an extract from the first Egyptian graphic novel for adults, Magdy El Shafee's Metro. Set in a chaotic modern Cairo pulsing with economic and social instability, the…

In the mid 1970s, at a time when Latin American countries chafed under brutal dictatorships, an amazing literary phenomenon swept through the region. Three powerful novels were published within months…

Translated from the Hebrew by Chana Morgenstern In this installment of “Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine,”  Chana Morgenstern. speaks to Almog Behar, whose poem, Sheikh Jarrah, 2010″…