Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about.From Alfred A. Knopf | Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya,…

In recent years, a proliferation of books in translation for children and young adults has brought imaginative stories from around the world to new readers. We’re speaking with some of the extraordinary…

Fatma Aydemir will be appearing at the Festival Neue Literatur in New York City this weekend. She will be giving a reading with other featured German-language authors on Friday evening at the…

Owen Good’s translation of Krisztina Tóth’s “The Tongue’s Story” appears in the March 2018 issue: Charged with Humanity: Six Hungarian Women Writers.A Body of…

Lerdo is a living thing, like a mind, and it has much to tell us.

I truly believe that Latin America is much better today than it was during my youth.

There is a kind of insecurity that makes people want to return to a tribal idea: the illusion of a closed community that has never existed.

In recent years, a proliferation of books in translation for children and young adults has brought imaginative stories from around the world to new readers. We’re speaking with some of the extraordinary…

Iranian-Canadian writer and activist Fereshteh Molavi recounts one of her many experiences of being held at the US/Canada border. Molavi has a piece in the forthcoming Banthology: Stories From Banned…

Author Roland Kelts reflects on his personal connection to the March 11, 2011 disaster in Japan through reading Richard Lloyd Parry’s Ghosts of the Tsunami (MCD, 2017).Seven years…

In celebration of International Women’s Day, meet women writers and translators from around the world who are pressing for progress through their activism and their literature.Writing Outside…

This two-thousand-year-old city’s calling is to souls, not hearts.

Director Nitesh Anjaan’s film Dreaming Murakami (Final Cut for Real, 2017) follows Haruki Murakami’s Danish translator, Mette Holm, as she travels to Japan while working on the translation…

This feature introduces the Anglophone reader to three monuments of Lithuanian literature and history.

“Aren’t you ashamed, you, a schoolgirl, to be sitting here on this bench?”

Bachelor of Philosophy Jan Kirdey Biront had some personal accounts to settle with God.

“Comments are unnecessary,” the judge interrupts again.

An important slice of recent Hungarian writing is indebted to the literature of the 1980s and ’90s that subverts the ideological remainders entrenched in language.

One sweltering summer morning, I wake up to find I’m Lionel Messi.

it can end whenever, wherever.

Oh God. The woman has vaporized.

It’s because we don’t speak their language. That’s why they’re defiling our food.

By the time I’d answered all his questions I recognized him: János Hell.

My parents know more about the Qahatika Indians than about my son.

We are very pleased to welcome Núria Codina as an editorial fellow! Núria is a researcher, lecturer, and translator from Barcelona. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from…

We are pleased to welcome Tobias Carroll as the new curator of WWB’s Watchlist. Each month, Tobias will share a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s…

We’re pleased to welcome Tobias Carroll as the new curator of WWB’s Watchlist. Tobias is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn and the author of the short…

WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator each month. This month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth question.For February’s installment,…

Geoff Bendeck speaks with Verónica Gerber Bicecci about her novel Empty Set, translated by Christina MacSweeney and out this month with Coffee House Press.It feels rare these days to encounter…

Jamie Richards’s translation of Davide Reviati’s “Spit Three Times” appears in the February 2018 issue, International Graphic Novels: Volume XII.Davide Reviati’s graphic…