Hold an assault rifle with my hand, use my mouth

we won't recognize this city anymore

The microphones of Radio Antenna Capri are rapt witnesses to a minor page of modern history—even if the chapter of history in question is the saga of the Neapolitan gasconade, not the annals of the pop beat.

Having a kid is the same as enrolling in a lifetime plan of suffering.

Your cheeks are pinked with Parnassus rose.

It is all the more disturbing, then, that neither Gyllenhaal in her interviews nor the film’s end credits or press kit makes any mention of the translator whose work was the basis for the script: Ann Goldstein.

Eight years and I’m still not over it.

I allowed myself to be very playful and unafraid, and to try everything.

Despite this recent wave of SFT, there are still a number of barriers preventing more of it from going mainstream in the Anglophone world.

Answers aren’t always easy to come by in the real world when you’re a kid.

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Morocco, Argentina, Poland, Chile, Sweden, and Tunisia.

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Not so many people think of the local languages as literary languages.

We highlight 9 writers working in their heritage languages, from Galician and Cebuano to Guaraní and Kaaps.

London, which seems all sprawl and braggadocio, is at the same time self-contained and fiercely defended.

While some of this writing engages directly with the country's history of armed conflict with Russia, the majority addresses more quotidian themes.

A multivoiced narrative was essential for the telling of the storm.

WWB Campus presents a collection of Korean literature and accompanying resources for high school and college classrooms.

That’s how it felt to sleep handcuffed to a table.

Humor was essential for my Ramayana.

Eyes gape at me over cups of coffee, forkfuls of delicate shrimp.

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Mexico, Norway, Haiti, Argentina, and Japan.

The earthquake opened new sociopolitical avenues to be addressed in literary fiction.

Recent and forthcoming dystopian fiction from Argentina, Egypt, Iceland, Japan, and more.

The experiences gained from a lifetime of reading and pursuing other professions are invaluable assets.

New York, New York, January 12, 2022—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has just announced that it will distribute more than $28 million in support of 1,248 arts and cultural organizations…

Some of the animals here possess the power of speech, deploying it to often subversive ends.

Around the time we were in second grade, Buckethead and I beat a snake to death.

WWB staff, contributors, and board members on the translated books they're most excited about in 2022.

I felt uncomfortable being who I was, raised on the idea of being from a Black family.