The spider is hiding, why don’t you try touching the spiderweb

Let me begin this story with a confession: I don’t know how to pronounce my own name.

In this special #WITMonth edition of the Watchlist, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry from Tunisia, unsettling fiction from Japan, feminist nonfiction from Brazil, and much more.

Western intellectuals lack the historical experience common in other parts of the world.

Marianna Suleymanova is recognized for her translation of a powerful short story collection on the state of Russian society.

The gateway of poetry is opened by frail things.

The Nakba of 1948, and the endless states of exile and refugeedom into which it cast the Palestinian people across the Arab world and beyond, sparked many new trends and movements in modern Arabic literature and art during the second half of the twentieth…

I have learned that imperfection can be a motor for creativity.

The official briefing said, “The family has no objection to the findings”

Whenever too many wild boars started to appear, or disturbed the citizens, there would be an “operation.”

You’re in the middle of September, and life is a bridge in a dream.

VANISHÄVEN helps us enjoy the moment with the piece of furniture and appreciate it as long as it is there, and then also to let go when it has to vanish.

While my friends gathered on the dirt field to play soccer or capture the flag or to trade sports cards, I would keep Major Jacobina company in his office.

Tobias Carroll on six summer reads you won't want to miss, from a detective thriller banned in Vietnam to a collection of speculative stories from Egypt.

Jaquette is an experienced literary arts administrator and noted translator of Arabic literature.

In our civilized society, meeting a uniform standard for physical ability and beauty is a basic human right.

When you’re a kid, being poor is hell on earth.

For years, I’ve been asked, “Why do you not write in Kurdish?”

The alley starts to stretch / on the first bow stroke

The songs are part of our lives in the chars. They have been passed down to us and adapted through generations and are a testament to how life and religion become one in the everyday.

The news of her arrest changed the metaphysical condition of my geography: I found myself, suddenly, in exile.

Did he once have a wife? Most likely.

The $150,000 general operating grant will provide organizational stability during a time of transition and growth.

and beneath the new sci-fi city lie rotting the ruins and corpses of olden days

Intrepid long canoes leap out / Driving for the coral gap

The award recognizes magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and wide.

We shall sleep no more on the pillow of echoing pathos

After several drinks and hours of hot, slow dances where they melted into each other, he offered to take her home.

Tobias Carroll recommends five new books in translation from Cuba, Germany, Haiti, Spain, and Sweden, ranging from unsettling short stories to atmospheric prose poetry.

Languages are merely lagoons, bays, inlets, linked together by currents, passes, channels.