Tobias Carroll recommends new and forthcoming books in translation from Bolivia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Norway, and Poalnd.

On clear days, the Alps and Apennines lift Parma to the heavens.

Under a boundless sky stretching across the horizon, enveloped in a silence spanning miles, Diganta sat beside his favorite person.

He sees an opportunity, creates a network of support for it, and makes something transformative happen.

You came up the stairs of the Haghani subway station, and with you the life of the whole nation of Iran came up its throat, leaving its body.

They all eyeballed one another, weighing up the possibility of a mass brawl.

Gaza is the soil where the tree of my consciousness and enlightenment has grown.

He laid the hairs out in front of him on the kitchen table, stretched out straight and flat next to each other like the strings of an instrument.

With canine relish and human shame, I’d rather sniff than taste.

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

Everybody knew that reading strange books was Shaam’s only hobby.

I would praise your bravery when you were twenty-eight / when you boarded an airbus a330 a child in tow

In a world of enforced transparency and readability, Jericho provides lush and deep gardens where no one can find you.

Though the girl’s mom had died five years earlier, her consciousness had been uploaded into a robot body with a tube-shaped head and a torso cluttered with silly refrigerator magnets.

well you’re right we’re stone dead / nothing to worry about

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

In the forest, between the acacia, mulberry, and stinging nettle bushes, where snakes shed their skin, she searched for Mangru’s footprints.

The vinyl record turns three thousand four hundred and fifty-six degrees. I counted.

Nuwayra, despite the precision of her intelligence reports, did not advance a satisfactory explanation for how Naima acquired this elephant.

“In Indonesia there are only two categories,” you replied. “Pacar atau suami—boyfriend or husband.

they speak different languages but will learn each other’s

One is hopeful from the moment one enters the city of Ziguinchor.

There’s a Tibetan saying that an old man’s country is like an old bird’s nest.

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.

It’s in everyone’s interest to fund the often-unpaid labor of sample translation.

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.

Gela, my odd Gela, a provincial soul in an overgrown urban body, a clash of ancient and modern.

I want to speak like a woman who burns a pile of old paper in the street / and the flame dances but you can’t see her face

It was highly unusual for him to be this late.