Tobias Carroll recommends noteworthy new books translated from Arabic, Chinese, Danish, French, and Japanese.

Tempo, for instance: one drop every so often, always the exact same so often, like a time trial in a bicycle race.

Every time she visited, she felt a crushing weariness, as though her entire life were caving in on her.

In all these years that I’ve spent writing in English, I’ve always felt that my leaning toward literariness was informed by Malayalam.

A headband, you say? You’re ridiculous.

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.

What brings people together isn’t language. If anything, when times are hard, shared language can deepen divisions.

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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.

the poem is riding a bicycle; / trembling and in haste.

Any way you look at it, it’s this town that taught me to be ruthless.

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

I was determined; one day I’d marry a book.

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.