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

She tells me not to be / a holy land / or a mine of tenderness

I would like/ in a faraway language/ to tell you what I don’t/ understand

Because death is stronger than hunger

The slumber at the edge/ of my well of fever

As the year draws to a close, our staff, contributors, and board members share their favorite works-in-translation of 2018 and the titles they’re looking forward to in 2019.Elisa Wouk…

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.From Archipelago Books | The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique…

In the past, I often felt lost buying books for the kids of friends and families. Goodnight, Moon may be inexhaustibly good, but everyone already has it; same with The Phantom Tollbooth; same with…

18ème arrondissementTo Nuno JúdiceThesculptors of Montmartre must havestudied anatomy (in depth)to chisel such beauty into theirsacred figures. Orelse wandered around (from brotheltobrothel)…

The following excerpt is from Jana Beňová’s Away! Away!, translated by Janet Livingstone and out tomorrow from Two Dollar Radio. With Beňová’s signature…

John Minford reflects on his experience with Taoism and as a translator of Taoist texts, including Lao Tzu’s the Tao Te Ching, out this week with Viking.When the Oxford police arrested…

Tobias Carroll explores Pablo Martín Sánchez’s recently released The Anarchist Who Shared My Name (tr. Jeffrey Diteman, Deep Vellum Publishing) within the context of the Oulipo collective…