Image: European Union flags on Castle Street, Hull, Great Britain. Creative Commons.With the UK still reeling at the prospect of leaving the European Union, we’re looking back to a time when another…

Image: Dragoslava Barzut. Photograph by Vincent Urbani.In December 2015, I read in Autonomija that Dragoslava Barzut, an author I have been translating, and three other women had been attacked in a Belgrade…

Like a big lake, it receives and embraces every influence and culture it encounters without being polluted by them.

Image: Passages of Grande Sertão: Veredas hanging in the Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo. (Wikimedia Commons.)Alison Entrekin’s translation of an excerpt from…

The writers here—both those from abroad and those from Brazil—set out to rediscover and portray the diverse Brazils within this dynamic country.

Are you like me, sir? I didn’t buy a word.

Work is too ambiguous a word. Does life work? No, it always wrecks.

But first they sever José Cláudio’s right ear.

“It’s impossible for a sister recluse to sing like that. We no longer feel those emotions.”

“Who cares about an old wreck?”

While he was with the Terena, he captured their lives: a mix of hope, spirituality, and a constant fear of losing their land once again.

He recruits men and trains them and organizes all sorts of crime from his cell.

I’d taken a few capoeira classes that left me barely able to walk.

“One does not kill wolves with poison.”

Everything clamors: / an hour hand gone berserk.

if you want to journey to ithaca / call ahead

my children look to me / and grasp after / absolute truths.

El Salvador is a country of contrasts.

Image: From the cover of Ronald M. Schernikau’s Kleinstadtnovelle (Small-town Novella).Lucy Renner Jones’s translation of Ronald M. Schernikau’s “Small-town Novella”​…

Image: Earl Fitz with Gregory Rabassa. Photo courtesy of Ezra E. Fitz.The great translator Gregory Rabassa died June 13 at ninety-four. You can read an excerpt from his memoir, If This…

In honor of the Copa America final this weekend and the pride celebrations this month, we turn to Alberto Salcedo Ramos’s rollicking “Queens Football,” from our Queer…

Image: Dany Laferrière (center) and Alba Donati (right) at the 2016 Festival degli Scrittori at Palazzo Strozzi.On June 6-8, writers, translators, and publishers from around the world gathered…

Image: Dany Laferrière during the 2016 Festival degli Scrittori. Photo by Jessie Chaffee.Dany Laferrière’s novel The World is Moving Around Me was a finalist for the 2016 Gregor von…

Image: Mircea Cărtărescu. Photo by Jessie Chaffee.Romanian poet, fiction writer, and journalist Mircea Cărtărescu was awarded the 2016 Premio Gregor von Rezzori for his trilogy…

Image: Lydia Davis at the University of Georgia Chapel (with George Cooke’s 1847 painting, “Interior of St. Peter’s”), Wikimedia Commons.In the spring of 2016, as co-teachers…

Image: Ahmad at the refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, photographed by Martin Trabalik. In 2015, over 800,000 individuals fleeing war-torn lands in the Middle East made the hazardous journey from…

Image: Gregory Rabassa. Photograph taken by his daughter Clara Rabassa.Daniel Shapiro, a Distinguished Lecturer at The City College of New York, CUNY, and editor of Review: Literature and Arts of the…

In our sorrow and disbelief over the attack in Orlando, we turn to our archives for some insight into the lives of queer Muslims in other parts of the world. Two stories—one from Jordan, one from…

June 6–17, Words Without Borders is raising support for its new online education program, WWB Campus, with a crowdfunding campaign to #InspireGlobalReaders. Find out more about WWB Campus and…

Image: Anton Hur and Jeon Sam-hye at Seoul Pride, 2016.Anton Hur’s translaton of Jeon Sam-hye’s story “Genesis” appears in the June 2016 issue of Words without Borders: “The…