One day, I gazed beyond the vendors who fill the sidewalks and the bustling businesses, and found something unexpected: the old city.

Every month, from the reviews desk to you, Words without Borders reviews editor M. Bartley Seigel shares a handful of forthcoming titles he’s excited about and thinks you should be excited about,…

Image: Peter Zilahy, photographed by Eftihia Stefanidi.Peter Zilahy’s The Last Window-Giraffe is a genre-defying book originally written in Hungarian; it has been translated into twenty-two…

This weekend, in memory of Muhammad Ali and with a nod to next month’s events in Rio, we’re scheduling a rematch with Eyad Barghuthy’s “A Knockout Punch,” from our May 2015…

Christina MacSweeney is a literary translator specializing in Latin American fiction. Her translations include Daniel Saldaña París’s Among Strange Victims (Coffee House…

Image: Photo of Sholeh Wolpé by Bonnie PerkinsonWWB’s Translator Relay series is back! The Translator Relay features a new interview each month. This month’s translator will choose…

Image: Phases of the Moon. (CC0 Public Domain.)Anton Hur’s translation of Jeon Sam-hye’s “Genesis” appears in the June 2016 issue of Words without Borders: “The…

Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe would have turned ninety this week. Beyond her impact in the US, her image permeated international popular culture as well, as suggested by the far-flung origins of the…

From translator Sarah Ponichtera’s presentation on postwar Yiddish poetry and prose. (J.J. Beck for Bennington College.)“All of a sudden, I’m seeing translation everywhere!…

Behind the bigotry and hyperbole lurk the fear of the unknown, the threat to the status quo.

Because what you felt when he turned you down was how I felt whenever I looked at you.

At home, no one suspects I do this. Imagine. It’d destroy my marriage.

“Everyone’s queer in this bloody prison!”

I suddenly realized that he was wearing a wig and the skin beneath his clothing was as coarse as tree bark.

I’ve been unfaithful on Good Friday, Mother’s Day, Christmas and even during a coup d’état.

In the locker rooms, wild combat rages more openly than elsewhere.

It wasn’t a question of my boss finding out I’m gay . . .

What’s the point of love without suffering?

Writing by authors of Latin American descent living in Canada is seldom read, taught, or reviewed beyond the country’s borders.

it’s still raining / as it did at the beginning of time

the flowers of war / open at night / on boulevard Saint-Laurent

a man standing on the tracks / stares at a train as it advances / with a moan of metal and night

It was by accident that Doña Toña decided to sell her daughters’ tears.

They blamed the phenomenon on the machinery of the heavens, and not on the machinations of man.

Ghosts move at night through the house of settlers.

Image: WWII Memorial, Canberra, Creative Commons CC0.With Barack Obama visiting Hiroshima and Vietnam, and Memorial Day around the corner, the US is awash in memories of its wars and those lost in…

Image: Wikimedia Commons.Hillary Gulley’s translation of Yoss’s “Interstellar Biochocolate Mousse á la solitaire . . . For Two” and Anabel Enríquez…

Images: David Bowie, 1974; Silvia Pérez Cruz, 2008; Édith Piaf, 1962 (Wikimedia Commons).     Esther Allen’s translation of Erick J. Mota’s “The Bleeding Hands of Castaways” appears…

We’re thrilled that Han Kang and her translator, Deborah Smith, carried off the Man Booker International Prize this week for The Vegetarian. WWB ran an excerpt from that singular book in our…

“The most difficult part of translation is, I believe, finding the ‘right’ pitch and voice of the original, and to try and match that. I won’t say ‘replicate’; that’s…