One wrong move and somebody was bound to shout, “Watch yourself! You’re in Iran now.

Edward Gauvin’s translation of an excerpt from Hélène Aldeguer’s After the Spring: A Tunisian Youth appears in the February 2019 issue of WWB. At the…

Do you look at bouquets of red roses and calculate when they’ll go limp? Do you think chocolates should come in boxes shaped like aortas and ventricles? Do you want to tell conversation hearts to…

When you deeply love a piece of writing, you long to become a part of it—to add to it and insert your own voice into its sentences. This is an idea that Roland Barthes expressed and that the writer…

New York, New York, February 13, 2019—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today awards totaling more than $27 million in its first funding round of fiscal year 2019, including an…

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.From Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Death Is Hard Work…

San Juan is a city full of life with a unique perspective on how to weather the growing storms of our moment.

In this bimonthly series, “Best of the B-Sides,” critic and bookseller Lori Feathers recommends a new work in translation along with a number of backlist (“B-Side”) titles…

These works reflect a striking range of existential challenges shaping lives across the globe.

I went to Iraq to make a queer film the likes of which the world had never seen.

He was 27! Just 27! Barely older than us!

At least five hundred pages, otherwise there's no point!

I had no idea I wouldn't be coming back.

The troops were led by poachers, tea-sellers, thrift store owners, and ex-convicts who'd turned into officers.

I prefer a Paulistano's frown over a Carioca's smile.

Olivia Snaije conducted the following interview over email with the poet Samira Negrouche, whose work appears in WWB’s January feature.Olivia Snaije (OS): You once told me that living…

Brighton is often called the London-suburb-by-the-sea. It’s a raffish and open city.

In celebration of this month’s issue of International Humor, we asked top translators to share stories about the joys and challenges of translating humor, from puns to satire to creative curses. Alta…

The poems below are excerpted from Fawzi Karim’s Incomprehensible Lesson. Translated by Anthony Howell (working from the author’s own versions) and forthcoming with Carcanet Press, the collection…

Like the French, who celebrate the holiday season into Epiphany and offer bonne années till the end of January, we’re extending our traditional year-end observations into the beginning of…

Winter is a rite of passage. There is a special stillness that can possess you for better or for worse.

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.From And Other Stories | Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated…

Translator Michele Hutchison, co-author (with Rina Mae Acosta) of The Happiest Kids in the World: How Dutch Parents Help their Kids by Doing Less, explores the relationship between happiness and the books…

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every other month. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth…

Susannah Greenblatt toured the recent Pioneer Works exhibition PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince with writer-in-residence Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. They discussed the artworks featured…

The human psyche is also New York psyche: vertical, horizontal, additive, oscillating between prophetic vision and madness.

When we think of translating humor, we may think in terms of capturing jokes.

Algerian Francophone poetry was largely outside, and in contrast to, the post-World War II movement in French poetry of disengagement from political causes.

This particular Tartar is unbeatable at cards/ Except for whist (not a game for Tartars)

The father’s house is a living language/ Open to guests passing through