These are the years directly preceding the onset of vulnerability.

“I don’t know where to start.”

Bekim Sejranović's From Nowhere to Nowhere, a novel about a young man displaced by the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, is out tomorrow from Sandorf Passage in Will Firth's translation.…

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

Sabrina Jaszi's translation of Alisa Ganieva's “Munkar and Nakir” appears in the February 2021 issue of Words Without Borders.Preparing to translate “Munkar…

He can run from this business but he can’t hide.

The troika was the Holy Trinity of its time.

It's impossible to be the same person in the translation, because poetry itself is a kind of translation.

György Dragomán's The Bone Fire, a Gothic novel about an orphan who's adopted by her mysterious grandmother, is out this week with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In the excerpt…

People get killed for less nowadays . . .

In their introduction to Words Without Borders’ “#Russophonia: New Writing in Russian” issue, Hilah Kohen and Josephine von Zitzewitz highlight several significant issues that “preoccupy…

Geography has been destiny for Georgia and its literature.

You’ve got to act fast in this city.

Airea D. Matthews to JudgeWinning Poems to Be Published in Poem-a-Day and WWB We’re pleased to announce the 2021 WWB Poems in Translation Contest spotlighting groundbreaking work by poets and…

Last year, Nigerian poet Onyinye Miriam Uwolloh published “Ishmael Na My Name,” a long poem in Nigerian Pidgin that retells the story of Moby-Dick (an audio recording…

In her travel memoir Winter Pasture, out next week with Astra House, writer Li Juan chronicles the winter she spent with a family of Kazakh herders in a remote region of northern China.…

Dig anywhere in the city and you collide with history.

Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes's translation of Danyil Zadorozhnyi's “Letter to Ukraine” appears in the February 2021 issue of Words Without Borders.How…

We laughed at our own precariousness.

Islander                                                       …

To one degree or another, history is always a myth.

New York, New York, February 4, 2021—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has just announced that it will distribute more than $25 million in support of 1,073 arts and cultural organizations…

I encountered my first sestina in college, through a creative writing workshop centered on poetic form. For homework, we read the canonical examples, such as Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sestina”…

These writings spark immediate conversations through rapid-fire literary texts rather than typical online commentary.

Driving here, did you know you'd die today?

Like the border between the word leave / and the concept of returning

I am the same sort of export as a Kalashnikov rifle or our great suicidal writers.

Dinara Rasuleva questions received notions of home and national identity in this poem about her relationship to Russia.

It wasn’t a plane at all, but a car flying through the sky.

The most horrible things, remember this, are incremental.