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.

It seems to me—perhaps naively—that poetry has the ability to examine things in a maximally authentic way.

Tunisia’s experience with despotism and revolution is universal.

I tried to find books by renowned authors and illustrators from Latin America and realized that very few have been translated into English.

Five years ago, John Keene published “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” a clarion call for more Afro-diasporic literature in English translation, noting the exclusion of Black writers…

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

The most honest way to review translation is to first admit that any translation problem has multiple solutions.

Its name, “the city of thousands,” is synonymous with multitude.

This month, WWB took a look back at some of the important writing on race and racism to be found in the magazine's archives.

There are obstacles translators must face before the international sections of bookstores reflect the world more equitably.

It would be naive to speak of editorial decisions without taking into account power relationships and established patterns of prejudice that undergird the publishing industry.

Running a start-up publisher in Mozambique is challenging, particularly because sales are low due to a nonexistent distribution network and too few bookshops, all located in the capital city.