David Boyd’s translation of Hideo Furukawa’s novella Slow Boat was published in 2017 by Pushkin Press. Here he discusses the book’s literary and musical influences.Hideo Furukawa named…

Norway’s Laila Stien tracks a group of Sámi herders guiding their reindeer on the seasonal migration to the north, fighting obstacles both natural and man-made.

Boundaries between the possible and the impossible in everyday life dissolve in this short story by Gunnhild Øyehaug.

He was just a face, a hand, and the knife.

This issue is not a departure but a continuation.

Each of the stories chosen for this feature presents us with characters in the midst of what are to them life-altering situations.

In San Marcos I could be poor and cholo and I didn’t have the pressure of hiding or explaining myself.

They didn’t get any satisfaction from coming out.

The house knew how to determine what was important.

You can hang a man from a tree, but you cannot hang History with him.

We inherit memory the way we inherit the color of our eyes and skin.

A strange thing began to happen in the country.

“Roadkill’s something you get used to seeing in America”

“Why do you think they brought you here?”

“I’m the Girl-Homer with her eyes wide open.”

Still we couldn't stop writing.

While snow was striking the windowpanes, my ears could only hear the sound of screaming and crying from a distant land.

In the mood for seasonal reading? We recommend the Japanese ghost stories lurking in our archives. Ghosts play a major role in Japanese culture and, as the spooky stories here reflect, Japanese folklore…

In this short crônica, Brazilian writer Elvira Vigna—who just last week was named a finalist for the 2017 Oceanos (former Portugal Telecom) Prize—gives a self-deprecating account of…

Hugh Hazelton’s translation of Sergio Kokis’s “Incidents at the Evangelista Lighthouse” appears in the October 2017 feature: Multicultural Quebec.Sergio Kokis is a unique…

Masha Gessen, Osama Alomar, Uzodinma Iweala, and Idra Novey are just a few of the 26 outstanding writers and translators who will join us for our annual celebration this November, chaired by James…

Saudi author Mohammed Hasan Alwan has, it seems, never done just one thing. He was writing his doctoral thesis when working on his fifth novel, A Small Death, set around the life of the peripatetic philosopher…

Abby Comstock-Gay’s translation of Yalçın Tosun’s “Muzaffer and Bananas” appears in the October 2017 issue: What Unites Us: Turkish Short Stories.When I first read…

Ayça Türkoğlu’s translation of Deniz Tarsus’s “The Canary” appears in the October 2017 issue: What Unites Us: Turkish Short Stories​.Taken from Deniz Tarsus’s…

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 October’s…

With a foreign population of over 40%, Geneva proudly lives up to its multicultural, cosmopolitan reputation.

Every month, emeritus Words Without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel reaches out into the wide world from his home on the shores of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula…

At PEN America’s Lit Crawl Brooklyn 2017, Words Without Borders and Slice Literary partnered to present a multilingual exquisite corpse, a story authored by four international…

The following story appears in Old Demons, New Deities, a collection of twenty-one short stories from Tibet, edited by Tenzin Dickie and forthcoming from OR Books.The Flight of the Wind…

Tickets are now on sale for WWB’s fourth annual Globe Trot, happening on November 1st at Tribeca Three Sixty!This annual celebration welcomes young publishing professionals, translators, and some…