Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Denmark, Argentina, Palestine, Mexico, and Poland.

I’m always a little amazed at the subtlety of Samanta’s language, how much she can convey in so few words—that hasn’t changed over all the books of hers I’ve translated.

One is drawn toward handwritten manuscripts because, unlike more mediated forms of writing (whether produced by typewriters, word processors, or automatic transcription tools), they alone retain the signs of hesitation.

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Morocco, Argentina, Poland, Chile, Sweden, and Tunisia.

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Mexico, Norway, Haiti, Argentina, and Japan.

Today, a young writer working in Spanish arrives in New York City to find no shortage of role models.

Completely unaware that this was the kind of sacred moment when you pledge your undying allegiance to a team, through thick and thin, I stated my choice.

somewhere in between the promise and the certainty of rain / the bounds of things / —all things, including you— / are blurred

We are bad actors who suddenly find themselves in a leading role.

Words Without Borders is leaning into poetry's ability to fill the void of isolation.

Some of the writers here document their own trips, while others invent characters and send them on the road.

I don’t understand how we walk around the world / ​as if there were a single way for each of us

We received 717 poems from 282 poets from 87 countries translated from 55 languages.

The clown had put the platter of coke on his head, like a waiter carrying a tray.

All people mourn in their own ways.

The writers here lead us to a much more nuanced understanding of twentieth-century Argentina and its literature.

One shouldn’t expect more from novelists than disjointed emanations without guaranteed outcomes.

The Spanish and I said very different things using almost the same words.

The comparison of Buenos Aires to Paris is an image of desire.

A smell of putrefaction, and the city with lit-up buildings was waking, coated in shades of pink.

It was too late to forget.

The intensity of the parent-child relationship, with its high emotional stakes, life-and-death responsibility, and inescapable physical proximity, makes for powerful stories.

Though food may fail to broker communication, this is often one of its major supposed roles.

Mariana Enríquez considers Argentina's national food—the asado—and its political implications.

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

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

The smell of the cyborg-gasoline gives me a pang of withdrawal which makes my hands sweat.

My two homies from Africa spent the whole damn day lying in bed or drinking mate in the fountained patio of the house.

After a while you reach a dazed state, a stupor in the face of nothing in particular.

The Eternonaut is a seminal work of Latin American literature. It’s been translated from Spanish into Italian and French, but never (until now) English. This section is taken from the original version…

How could they suffer us to name the bird magnolia?

The other one gave me that slutty smile older chicks use when they’re trying to pass for teenagers.

Olga slid her soapy thumbs behind the man's ears and then, still using her thumbs, lightly stroked his earlobes.

“Have you ever seen a human body decompose before? No? Well, you will now.”

“If I have to kill a thousand innocent people in order to unearth a single guerrilla, I will.”

Countless small spiders were spreading out over his skin in a kind of exotic dance.

“You really make people disappear!?”

While the woman was in the bathroom, Alex leaned on the cradle with all the weight of his little body until he tipped it over.

In Tokyo, in Buenos Aires, in New York, every night, routinely, someone kills a loved one in his dreams.

Not all hares are alike, Jacinto, and it wasn't her fur, believe me, that distinguished her from the other hares, not her Tartar eyes nor the whimsical shape of her ears.

Flashes of euphoria and passion for objects.

“Don’t move.” Ruth was holding a wooden racket.

It’s difficult to accept the idea of receiving Teresita so soon, but I don’t want to hurt her, either.

The reason is that they don’t remain clean

invite people over. invite everyone.  to a feast.  a big feast.

“Silvia wants to show us all a magic trick,” said Mr. Rabbit. “She’s going to make someone disappear!”

Normal people fantasize a lot about our work, which is really pretty routine and not at all like what you see in the movies.

“This story befuddles expectations and foils them.”—Ariel Dorfman

I think that this compulsion of mine influenced my choice of career.

A salad can be an anthem to joy

Illustrious tyranny of the peach:

Through the crack, you could see the smiling face of a gray-haired woman.

Time is so complicated, yet so simple!

The island lights look like the stars came down from the sky and queued up.