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.

Could a Black man really have become a knight of the Order of Santiago?

New this month: Tobias Carroll recommends eco-dystopia, a modern picaresque, innovative autofiction, and more, translated from Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, and Portuguese.

I looked around, waking up from the miracle of my birth.

First, we were taken to a private room and stripped and searched.

After our house in Jabalia was destroyed we hid in the UNRWA school. But the bombs followed us there too . . .

From there, he went straight out to wage no-holds-barred warfare on everyone and everything.

If every generation of language users expresses this constantly churning discomfort about the unworkability of language, then literary translation acknowledges the discomfort, examines it, and places it front and center.

disease came dwelling / now it eats my bread

Literature, storytelling, and fiction in particular can actually perform simple miracles.