The deadline to submit applications for the 2024–25 WWB Digital Humanities Fellowship has passed. Due to the volume of applications received, we are still reviewing applicant materials and are likely to begin conducting interviews sometime in June 2024.

The substance of Wittgenstein’s theories in the Tractatus is intimately tied to a vision of lan­guage that, among other problems, tends to produce bad translations.

For just a moment, in the darkness of the swamp, her sunken eyes glinted with a bloodshot sparkle.

When Bastien reported his mother missing on June 13, the investigator who received his complaint by phone assured him that there was nothing to worry about.

Reflexively, she shakes the grating as if to convince herself that no beastly strength could tear it loose and free the horde.

Taking painkillers is for cowards. It’s time for you to think about your first extraction, Clément.

Hannah Allen-Shim takes us on a tour of Quebec’s science fiction and fantasy scene, from its beginnings in the 1970s to its expansion and diversification in recent years.

Ophélie smiles idly, everything spins, the air stops, space-time tears, clocks grind.

Thanks to Nadya Siyam, a writer and former student of Dr. Refaat Alareer, we've compiled a list of the works that Alareer was most passionate about teaching to his students in Gaza.

In our books, hunger and bread are synonyms, / light and darkness all broken shards.

For Refaat, teaching was more than just a job; it was a dynamic and transformative experience for himself and for his students.

For as long as Palestinians have resisted their occupiers, a companion narrative questioning our very existence, a profoundly dehumanizing narrative rooted in the West’s still unexamined anti-Arab racism, has also thrived, writes Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

Tobias Carroll recommends six books to start off the new year, from a classic of Danish science fiction to Álvaro Enrigue's reimagining of sixteenth-century Mexico.

The award will support WWB’s award-winning digital magazine of international literature and its literary events.

Sitting in front of the screen, my thoughts resemble a bombed hospital.

This grant aims to support early-career translators seeking to bring international work into the English-language marketplace.

A human has attempted to communicate with me by physical means.

Errant translation may take the form of performance, at any time or place. Such translations are difficult to see, publish, or police.

That's all we need, her mother says, you two fighting over a man, I’d understand if it were over property, not that we have any . . . but a man!

Although I’m inclined to become a novelist and narrative journalist, I secretly wish I was a poet, and often find myself poring over lines written by my college poet-friends and WWB contributors.

After a dozen or so bombings, Jahid, like my mother had before him, decided we would flee.

Tobias Carroll recommends six new books you won't want to miss this month, from a Brazilian crime novel to poetry translated from Filipino and Serbian.

If the light cries at what I write / it doesn’t mean that I’m alive

As a writer, I don't ever place myself with a point of view about morality or ethics. I have characters whom I create, and I try to give each of these characters his or her chance.

As if I were arriving at the end of arriving.

WWB staff members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they're most looking forward to in 2024.

Ultimately I am curious to explore how we can cultivate appreciation, access, understanding, and preservation of the literary arts (and the arts more broadly) with the digital technologies of today.

“If Kowsar’s education is of no use to her and of no importance to you,” Teacher Sadeq says sharply, “then why did you send her to school?”

Over coffee, my brother pulls up his chair and discreetly asks me if I’m going to write that book about our mother.

The next time we went to the beach I had to parade around in a lurid life jacket, looking like a visitor from another planet.