Their nayffara is a flutelike instrument heavy with history, deeply immersed in sorrow.

You will say to them that she sleeps in the calabash of worlds

Depleted as they were, they realized that they had to either team up or go under.

Here the poem ends

What you are witnessing is the last face of the Earth.

Anke Stelling's award-winning novel Higher Ground, translated from German by Lucy Jones, is out tomorrow from Scribe. An examination of class, friendship, and parenthood in contemporary…

I met Sarah Booker virtually in 2018 when she spoke with a graduate student reading group about translating Cristina Rivera Garza's The Iliac Crest. During her virtual visit, Booker…

I have come to think of any “definitive text” largely the same way that I think of a mother tongue, at least in my case: an inherently debatable, perpetually relative concept.

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. This month's selection includes books translated from…

My writing is a product of my reading, so today, on Earth Day, I am pleased to share some of the books that inspired me to write On Time and Water. The theme of the book is, as the title says, time and…

A translated work’s pitch is aided by comparisons.

This game of comparisons, while not always accurate, can open doors and be thought-provoking.

Why must two works be compared at all?

It is essential that we understand comps and are aware of their limitations.

The most recent novel by Palestinian writer Sahar Khalifeh, My First and Only Love, is out this week from Hoopoe. The book follows the protagonist, Nidal, as she returns to her family home in Nablus…

Fifty Sounds, Polly Barton’s memoir of moving to Japan, immersing herself in the language, and becoming a literary translator, is out tomorrow from Fitzcarraldo Editions. In the excerpt…

Natasha Lehrer is a prize-winning literary translator from French to English. She recently translated Consent, Vanessa Springora’s memoir of her teenage relationship with the writer Gabriel Matzneff,…

In the essay below, translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet, Gábor Schein discusses the impact Hungary's recent political developments have had on the country's literary landscape.Again…

The scope of the topics explored in this issue is, therefore, necessarily broad without being comprehensive.

Karen says she’s seen it when the souls begin their perambulations.

This last shift, the boats came in all night and we ran out of everything.

it’s difficult to appraise the unseeable

That same month, she realizes that she’s never going to stop striving as long as she’s in Reykjavik.

the glacier is black / polar bears run on hot sand

When Böddi came back to Iceland a month later, he was engaged.

In order to get a visa, they had to explain to him how two women went about having sex.

He gets irritated, even seems hurt, if I put on makeup, and he asks accusingly, “Who are you doing that for?”

I love this city against my own better judgment.

WWB's March issue features writing from Galicia, an autonomous region of northwestern Spain that borders Portugal. Though the Galician language shares a common root with modern Portuguese, Galicia's…

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. This month's selection includes translated books from…