Stuck in a reading slump? Check out Tobias Carroll's recommendations of six new books of fiction, poetry, and graphic lit to read now, translated from Greek, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and more.

Modern humans are the ones in crisis, not poetry.

If this longing could ebb / Only the earth would remain.

Ever since that particular night, I’d felt an entire universe taking shape inside my womb.

Leave the place where it lies / and go dream

Once a week (sometimes more), he swallowed his pride and took money from his father, and he got used to it.

In this introduction to our collection of Jordanian writing, guest editor Addie Leak details the country's diverse culture and vital literature.

“Uncle Ji is a sore point with your dad,” Mama said.

I wanted to create a journey for a book censor who becomes eventually a reader, and then he needs to protect this new identity as a reader in a world that deals with it as if it's a crime or something.

The first sprout I think to Ædnan was an image I saw, an inner image, of a woman, an older woman and her kind of silence, the silence she had in her face and the seriousness she had. I struggled for a long time to approach her and get into her life and…

I was working on tuning my instrument with the next books at the same time as Barbara was tuning her English instrument with the books.

I know that the first time I read the book I was very confused, which is the point.

Fernanda really captures the sensation of moving through a city stripped of not only most of its inhabitants, but also of most of its natural and human-made sounds.

Miško wrote in his diary that snails are asinine.

To scrub away the silk threads of pain, endless sorrow, sharp anguish, heartache . . .

From an anthology of Yazidi poetry to Scholastique Mukasonga's latest novel, Tobias Carroll recommends September's must-reads in translation.

Yes, love was time, and it too / splintered and cracked

This WorldKidLit Month, join us for a survey of some of the most innovative and compelling Latin American children's books recently translated into English.

what is language? and what is the translation of war?

a sensation of intricate webs / soft, possibly smooth, and heavy

Slowly, with a crack, the snail shell breaks— / you don’t need it anymore.

The spider is hiding, why don’t you try touching the spiderweb

Let me begin this story with a confession: I don’t know how to pronounce my own name.

In this special #WITMonth edition of the Watchlist, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry from Tunisia, unsettling fiction from Japan, feminist nonfiction from Brazil, and much more.

Western intellectuals lack the historical experience common in other parts of the world.

Marianna Suleymanova is recognized for her translation of a powerful short story collection on the state of Russian society.

The gateway of poetry is opened by frail things.

The Nakba of 1948, and the endless states of exile and refugeedom into which it cast the Palestinian people across the Arab world and beyond, sparked many new trends and movements in modern Arabic literature and art during the second half of the twentieth…

I have learned that imperfection can be a motor for creativity.

The official briefing said, “The family has no objection to the findings”