There is a permanent solace in the knowledge that you can’t be the weirdest person in this city.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’re looking ahead to the translated literature by women that we’re most excited about in 2020. Here are the books at the top of our…

A dispiriting narrowness has defined canons of Urdu feminist writing from previous decades.

A woman discovers the true nature of her enemy in this short story by Khalida Hussain.

I swallowed fire / And forgot you were an ocean.

So this is what the new year of those who worship this life looks like!

Flowers will slip from a torn veil.

Her sagacity immortalized even her scattered, sporadic axioms.

When a man cries / he floods himself in salt tears / and colorfast he drowns

Turkish writer, musician, and human rights activist Zulfu Livaneli talks about his latest novel to appear in English, Serenade for Nadia (translated by Brendan Freely), out from Other Press on March 3.Zulfu…

In Esther Gerritsen's Roxy, translated by Michele Hutchison and out this week with World Editions, a young woman named Roxy struggles to move on after her husband is killed in a car crash along…

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.From Two Lines Press | b, Book, and Me by Kim Sagwa, translated…

There is another life that unfolds in this low-lying area at the foot of the seven hills.

An excerpt from Barrack Rima's graphic novel Beirut Trilogy appears in WWB's current issue of graphic literature in translation. In conversation with translators Alexandra Gueydan-Turek…

If the collapse of the nation-state reinvented the Lebanese novel, its reconstitution could galvanize literature.

When I bought my copy of Comemadre by Argentine novelist Roque Larraquy, the bookseller looked up at me from behind the cash register and said, “Be prepared—this book blew my wife’s…

It’s February, and love is in the air. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ve gathered seven stories from our archives that are sure to put your romantic notions to the test. Levi…

In Chan Ho-Kei's Second Sister, translated by Jeremy Tiang and out next week with Grove Atlantic, a young woman named Nga-Yee tries to uncover the motives behind her sister's suicide. In the excerpt…

The mother sheep would warn her children of the wolf that prowled the town.

Set me free and I'll make you rich.

Cats. Carry cats!

The stories are abundant with social wisdom, moral instruction, and cultural knowledge.

Returning to Rome makes the blood rush in unpredictable ways.

Counting down the minutes to Oscars night? No doubt you've watched all nine Best Picture nominees. If it's the Academy Awards you've got on your mind and yet you just know the…

These artists capture both words and images to convey narratives individual and collective.

The outlooks and the insights need to be revised.

It's as if my childhood was preparing me for the camera, the photo, the image, and the documentary.

But three days ago, everything changed.

An escalating inquiry into the passage of time.

He's touching me.