He had many friends, but to pour his heart out to, he had no one.

What has been happening in Georgia makes me very, very unhappy indeed.

WWB's annual award for the promotion of international literature will be awarded to Christopher Merrill in 2025.

I found some of the work here challenged my thinking of Caribbean Hindustani language and culture, poetry, and the translational act, and I am here for all of this.

No, I began to realize, there was no escaping this woman.

A border-dweller is someone for whom the existence of a limit is not a reason to stop.

Salty sea wind opens the nostrils, licks the screeching sole of the ear

Whose deviation from the standard is art and whose is error?

We became an entity. Encapsulated. We isolated the world.

“What we need is a particular essay. What good will scandal do you?”

my abdomen became thin, transparent, like the georgette I was wearing

Tobias Carroll rounds up the latest in international literature, from Saou Ichikawa's novel of disability and sex to Tierno Monénembo's story of a Guinean woman in exile.

Nightmares are always quick to come true.

That day, I learned what it meant to run. And it was a race with no certain finish line.

“This is war, Halima. Everyone’s going to leave.”

Her eyes keep staring sort of past and through me. It eventually dawns on me what the old woman is trying to communicate.

Of what use is a temple or a mosque to us?

Six judges of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle's Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize share their appreciations of the six shortlisted titles.

“That seems more accurate, yes. That’s what I’m like. A shadow.”

In life, as in the novel, disability is so much more than its designations.

In honor of International Women's Day 2025, WWB spotlights 8 women writers who have celebrated their English-language debut this past year.

On days I wore sneakers, I was treated as abled, and on days I wore sandals, I was treated as disabled.

Suddenly the world felt incredibly sad. What battle to fight, and for who, if each battle bore the seed of its own destruction?

New fiction and poetry from Hong Kong, Oman, Portugal, and more: Tobias Carroll recommends this month's standout reads in translation.

Either way, they were erasing the novel’s essence: the disabled experience.

Clare Richards underscores the significance of D/deaf, disabled, and/or neurodivergent writers and translators presenting their community on their own terms.

The deadline to submit applications for the 2025–26 WWB Editorial Fellowship has passed. Due to the volume of applications received, we will only be able to contact individuals who make it to the interview round.

Gul’s silky, delicately stitched gharara looked so gorgeous, she swooned at her own reflection.

by next spring / he’ll be a god’s child

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