On January 20 and 21, the UK-based theater company Foreign Affairs will present a digital showcase of six plays translated by its first-ever virtual cohort of theater translation mentees. In today's…

Much of the radical heart of Nazrul’s larger oeuvre, including his work as a freedom fighter, has been overlooked.

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth…

Why is the film industry suddenly concerned about the whitewashing of Asian stories? In this essay, Yuma Terada, the cofounder of Tokyo- and New York-based literary agency and production company CTB…

The desert is the shoulder of the city.

Salvadoran author Claudia Hernández's first novel, Slash and Burn, is out this week with And Other Stories. Translated by Julia Sanches, the book follows several women through…

Engaging the evolving dialogue that broadens definitions of global Blackness.

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. From Tilted Axis Press | Strange Beasts of China by…

As the year comes to an end, our staff, contributors, and board members share their favorite international reads from 2020 and the titles they’re looking forward to in 2021.Eric M. B.…

Much like the books he published, John O’Brien (1945–2020) was a complicated man. He was an idealist who devoted his life to a self-described “quixotic enterprise” of creating a repository for strange,…

Oxford is one hidden city layered over another.

We were delighted, and intrigued, when artist Yasmeen Abdullah told us her painting “The Butterfly Effect,” the cover art for our December 2020 issue of writing by Sudanese women, was based…

As we approach the end of 2020, we’ve been speaking with translators, critics, publishers, writers, and booksellers about outstanding books in translation that readers might have…

We have to fight for our own voice locally and nationally before we can fight for a place in the world.

Words Without Borders is pleased to announce the election of Tara Parsons, Associate Publisher of the HarperOne Group, to its Board of Directors. “Tara's expertise and leadership in…

A nation’s upheaval cannot be understood without women's perspectives.

At that moment, there was another whistling sound, followed by a huge explosion.

She could not have known that the caller at the other end of the phone was about to faint.

It is one of those days when the winter sun is gorgeous, and you don’t want to even think of death.

Is it a boy or a girl?

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth…

Is there some sort of double marginalization at play?

This man must be high on something, I thought.

She is a woman I have watched for many years, and for as many years she has been unaware of me.

Women are forbidden from setting foot in the swamp.

She hovers overhead, aimless, surrendering herself to fate.

I didn’t go to the dorms as I had planned; my feet led me to the river.

Peach Blossom Paradise, the first book in Ge Fei's Jiangnan Trilogy, will be published next week by NYRB Classics in Canaan Morse's translation. The novel tells the story of Xiumi, a…

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. From Comma Press | God 99 by Hassan Blasim, translated…

Naples is the city of a hundred cities, of a hundred satellites all orbiting the unique, massive planet that is memory.