We’re pleased to welcome Nina Perrotta as WWB’s assistant editor and development associate. Nina is a writer, editor, and translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Prior to joining WWB, she…

We are acutely aware of the danger of the 'single story.'

Disoriented is an online platform that explores identity in Asia through essays, interviews, and multimedia work. Today on WWB Daily, writer and translator Paige Aniyah Morris reflects on the experiences…

Elisa Taber's An Archipelago in a Landlocked Country is out today with 11:11 Press. A lyric ethnography of two Paraguayan populations—a Mennonite colony and a Nivaklé settlement—the…

The protagonist of this month’s work is the natural world in its multitudes.

before their paths divided, they formed, together, three glints of light and shadow moving on at last

In Being Mangrove, Eliseu Cavalcante explores the relationship between humans and the mangrove forests of Bahia, Brazil.

Rain was no longer rain!

The shock that was yet to come had long ago passed her by.

O, it is a defeated god, approaching the dusk of time.

The city has devoured itself over and over again.

Mercedes Barcha is best known for her marriage of nearly sixty years to Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. Today, on what would have been her eighty-eighth birthday,…

In his forthcoming book On Time and Water, an excerpt of which appears in our October 2020 Climate issue, and in his TED talk, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason combines science, myth, and…

You are never the same 'you' from book to book.

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. From Valancourt Books | The Valancourt Book of World…

In A Pre-Columbian Bestiary: Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America, Ilan Stavans collaborates with illustrator Eko to tell the stories of religious and mythical creatures from…

A lot of readers really appreciated seeing a novel set in a kitchen, seeing their own experience depicted.

Girls Against God, the latest novel from Norwegian writer and musician Jenny Hval, came out earlier this month with Verso Books. Translated by Marjam Idriss, the novel blends experimental horror,…

When a female writer has been objectified and put on such a pedestal, how is she supposed to get down again?

Egyptian writer Haytham El Wardany's The Book of Sleep, translated from Arabic by Robin Moger, is out today with Seagull Books. Throughout the book, and in the four fragments below, El Wardany…

We’re pleased to welcome Varun Nayar as a WWB editorial fellow. Varun is a writer, editor, and researcher from Delhi, India. He was most recently the nonfiction editor of Asymptote, and…

Athens is about instant decisions, constant change, boldness and confusion and nerve.

Global warming manifests in obvious ways.

“Get it through your head: God and me, we’re the same person.”

Chaos is not confined to the glacier’s edge.

What use is it for us humans to cling to our freedom in the midst of all this trash?

No single means of communication can be solely effective, because climate change is such a “wicked” problem—it is truly planetary in scale.

So this is how it all ends . . .

I was fascinated by the art of ekphrasis: the discipline of transforming the visual into the verbal to stimulate different kinds of seeing.

Margaret Wright's translation of Doris Moromisato's “Here in Chorrillos” appears in the September 2020 issue of Words Without Borders.This is an untested theory, but I bet if you read…