Did he once have a wife? Most likely.

The $150,000 general operating grant will provide organizational stability during a time of transition and growth.

and beneath the new sci-fi city lie rotting the ruins and corpses of olden days

Intrepid long canoes leap out / Driving for the coral gap

The award recognizes magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and wide.

We shall sleep no more on the pillow of echoing pathos

After several drinks and hours of hot, slow dances where they melted into each other, he offered to take her home.

Tobias Carroll recommends five new books in translation from Cuba, Germany, Haiti, Spain, and Sweden, ranging from unsettling short stories to atmospheric prose poetry.

Languages are merely lagoons, bays, inlets, linked together by currents, passes, channels.

In this introduction to our collection of writing from the Francophone Pacific, Jean Anderson advocates for a view of the region that encompasses both its linguistic diversity and its interconnectedness.

I say: I’m lying for you, Lisé. You say: You’re lying for your mother, Nesta.

One day you’re a revolutionary, and the next you’re a civil servant. 

Yasmine Seale lauded Marcia Lynx Qualey, the winner of the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature, at an in-person ceremony in New York on June 4, 2024.

She could strangle Ajodiadei. The old woman is one of the only guilty ones still alive.

On June 4th, Marcia Lynx Qualey accepted the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature at a ceremony in New York.

The $75,000 general operating grant will support WWB’s efforts to expand access to international literature.

Jenna Tang, translator of Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise by Lin Yi-Han, recommends 8 books and short stories in translation from Taiwan to read now.

Then she heard a gnawing. Urgent, like a starved animal ripping pieces of meat to devour.

Here, yesterday and now, / what did they gather as they fled

Take this city / bite it like an apple

Icelandic dystopia. A Quebecois graphic novel. Queer short stories from Puerto Rico. Tobias Carroll recommends all this and more in his May Watchlist.

The translators of the four stories in the Matrilineal collection consider matriarchal influence and the uncanny power of feminine inheritance.

Between 1975 and 1980, around 300,000 Surinamese—nearly half of the population—seized the opportunity and left for the Netherlands. Among them was my father.

Mothering and translating get described in similar ways; they are often devalued in similar ways.

In this excerpt from Igiaba Scego’s Cassandra a Mogadiscio, a writer considers how her diasporic Somali family has managed to remain close despite the distances—and the many languages—between them.

My mother was very careful with those gold crescent-shaped earrings, boasting that they were a gift from her mother-in-law.

The song of the mosque and the song of the church are two birds falling upward at dawn.

A conversation about Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour, a Palestinian writer serving a life sentence in Israeli prison.

Another “only in Vegas” site: a yacht graveyard in the middle of the desert.

Join Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp on a mouth-watering tour of four continents through thirteen picture books, middle grade and YA fiction, and graphic novels.