silence sullen-faced fate reaches my ears

Toledo is a city marked with scratches, indentations, ashes of other cities, shadows, fugitive trails, clouds of smoke, dust, and slamming doors.

Some of the writers here document their own trips, while others invent characters and send them on the road.

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.From Grove Atlantic | The Story of a Goat by Perumal…

As the year draws to a close, our staff, contributors, and board members share their favorite works-in-translation of 2019 and the titles they’re looking forward to in 2020.Eric M. B. BeckerEditorTo…

As we approach the end of the year, we’ve been speaking with translators, critics, publishers, writers, and booksellers about excellent works in translation that you may have missed in your…

Elizabeth Lowe’s translation of an excerpt from Brazilian writer João Paulo Cuenca’s I Found Out I Was Dead appears in the current issue of international true crime writing. Lowe…

Bogdan Rusev’s Come to Me, translated by Ekaterina Petrova and out next week with Dalkey Archive Press, is a story of coming-of-age in 1990s Bulgaria in the wake of the Soviet Bloc’s collapse…

The pieces here map the translation of event into prose—the creation of true crime writing.

It all began about the time that the men and women were finishing their first drinks.

It's not your job to solve this case.

She’s the one who identified the body with your name, address, and document number.

Like most gruesome crimes, the case also reveals something of society's ills.

Twenty years ago, one Christmas Eve, my best friend killed his sister and threw himself off a cliff.

“Must you put on a fur when someone shouts ‘murder'?

It's not a crime to kill someone on the high seas, you know.

This holiday season give friends and family the gift of literature from around the world. Here are our recommendations of exciting recent international titles for all of the readers in your…

In my Italian translation course at Georgetown University, advanced students of Italian learn about translation theory and practice (English-Italian, and vice versa) of different genres, including newspaper…

Is it possible to ever fully outgrow the place that first left its mark on you? The town, city, or village where you lived for the first fifteen years of your life?

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.From Feminist Press | The Living Days by Ananda Devi, translated…

At PEN America’s Lit Crawl NYC 2019, Words Without Borders and SLICE Literary partnered to present a multilingual exquisite corpse, a story authored by four international writers and their translators.In…

Amman consumes me when I’m there and it can feel like an entire world. It demands so much attention even as it grumbles about its own frustrations.

Jeffrey Zuckerman’s translations of Ananda Devi’s The Living Days (The Feminist Press) and Shenaz Patel’s Silence of the Chagos (Restless Books) were both released this week. Through…

In Johary Ravaloson’s Return to the Enchanted Island, translated by Allison M. Charette and out tomorrow with Amazon Crossing, Ietsy Razak comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of Madagascar.…

The works we have selected challenge a monolithic view of the fragmented histories and interconnected, overlapping cultures in the Philippines.

The results of these confrontations range from triumphant to catastrophic as the boundaries between worlds dissolve.

A general who has dreams, that much they’d put up with, but a general who sees ghosts?

Coconut trees, palm fronds gone. Decapitated.

I follow him everywhere and never lose sight of him; he rarely notices me.

Three or four days / he hangs out in our house.