As far as I know, there's no more bus service either. In what capacity are you going to the front?

It goes quickly. Lisbon burns.

María Constanza Guzmán: In the introduction to The Subversive Scribe, you mention the usefulness of “self-referential inquisitions by prose translators” as models for the study of translation…

They returned…

It's common knowledge that, at the end of WWII, many German war criminals fled from justice via “ratlines” to South American countries. Less notorious, though, are the Nazis who, like…

Susan Sontag Prize for Translation Open to SubmissionsThe prize, in its third annual iteration, includes a $5,000 grant for the proposed translation of a work of fiction or letters by anyone under the…

With its bookshelves organized by country, New York’s Idlewild Books is a great resource for anyone who wants to delve into a particular corner of the world. For instance, fiction from the Cape…

Between the World Cup and the World Series comes high season for world literature: time to place your bets on this year’s candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. You can read two of the usual…

More than the FactsIn gearing up for the coming two-day symposium on literary reportage, After Kapuściński: The Art of Reportage in the 21st Century, fellow sponsor The National Book Critics…

A new bi-monthly magazine celebrating women writers has landed. Belletrista, carved of moonlight, aims to share the varying voices of females internationally and I couldn’t be happier about it.…

Garth has started a Bolaño “syllabus” over at the Millions. It’s meant to be a primer for those new to his writing, but I also think it’s a good departure for discussion…

Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry was released in July 2009 by Southern Illinois University Press. Edited by Frank M. Chipasula, himself an African poet, it is a generous and attractively…

Etgar Keret’s Complicated CharactersSydney’s Morning Herald has a great profile on Israeli short story writer Etgar Keret today. In the interview, Keret describes what he calls Israelis’…

After an hour-long Subway ride due to weekend delays, I emerged from the steps at Borough Hall station in Brooklyn to the plaza, where I was pleasantly transported from the dark inertia to the middle…

International Stage at Brooklyn Book FestivalNo matter where you’re coming from, a trip to the Brooklyn Book Festival, now in its fourth year, is sure to be worthwhile. It’s distinctly local…

End of summer here in upstate New York and the cool weather is already beginning to show its face. That means more reading soon instead of our usual summery frolicking. But until then we leave you with…

Like last year, I am going to teach two courses in the Netherlands this fall. One course is on two books by Coetzee, at the University of Leiden, and one is on genetic modification from a literary point…

Not crossing the street: it was already baking hot, so hot that a body would automatically choose to walk in the shade.

New in Catalan LiteratureThe September issue of World Literature Today is carrying a special feature on Catalan literature, guest edited by Lawrence Venuti. In his introduction, Venuti highlights the…

The Total corporation—jewel in the crown of the French economy—maintains a presence in many countries across the globe, wherever there are fossil fuels to exploit. To do so, it hires locals, but also…

Hey young fellow, it's your stop . . .

The old dog lumbers beside me, exhaling and inhaling laboriously and tracking my steps with her bowed head turned white with old age.

I wake up. The bus stops, and a village full of horses appears.

Seven thirty in the morning. My autumn heart is still beating slowly.

All along our Wooden Cross garden the peonies were dying. . .

It's been almost three years since I ended up on that street in the Grenelle quarter.

Your friend sits on a pile of things, / As if a yellow star were on his chest,

The Translator’s Library is a series on the books that inform and inspire the art of translation.The intricate chain of events that occurs after a translator undertakes a translation for a publishing…

Our late August weekend reading suggestions continue to be brief as we’ve spent our mental energy willing Hurricane Bill out into the ocean, so here are a few tidbits that you might enjoy:Listening:…

A heads-up to all WWB readers, radio fans, and nature lovers: WWB Editorial Director Susan Harris will be on Wisconsin Public Radio's “Here on Earth” at 4 p.m., EDT, today, talking with…