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12 Global Children’s Books for History Lovers

By Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

In celebration of #WorldKidLitMonth, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp recommends 12 international books for young readers with an interest in world history.

Exile Poem

Afterwards, heads of hushed army snipers / pop up on every rooftop.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

The World at Home: US Writing in Translation

By Susan Harris

This issue is not a departure but a continuation.

The Assassin

Still we couldn’t stop writing.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

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Just Dinner, but Oh, What a Feast

By Rohan Kamicheril

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

Delbahar and Ghee

By Prasanta Mridha

The most astonishing thing about these men was their ability to eyeball measurements.

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

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Rasha

By Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

Whenever teachers said there was good news, it almost always turned out to be nothing of the sort.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

Me and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

By Shahaduz Zaman

“And that shadowy bit you see up there, that’s the thing that has me worried.”

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

An Indian Citizen in Our Town

By Mashiul Alam

He can clearly see all of this life of seventy-three years, two months and thirteen days.

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

Hands

By Anwara Syed Haq

The things he could mend! From jewelry to shoe soles, from punctured tires to bent bicycle spokes–he fixed it all.

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

Waiting

By Ahmad Mostofa Kamal

If fornication was stopped, what pleasure was left in life?

Translated from Bengali by Mahmud Rahman

Snakes, Husbands, Ashalota, and Us

By Shaheen Akhtar

The rest of the night we refold our spread-open bodies dreaming snake-dreams.

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

Once Again Love

By Shaheen Akhtar

Cops on our tail, cops on our tail!

Translated from Bengali by Mahmud Rahman

From “The Ascetic and The Courtesan”

By Buddhadeva Bose

Cropless the fields, childless the wives, day after day an emptiness—no rain.

Translated from Bengali by Sankalpo Ghose & Jyotirmoy Datta

Four Poems from “Sparks”

By Rabindranath Tagore

That is why / Flowers seek it in the stars,

Translated from Bengali by William Radice

Parul’s Motherhood

By Selina Hossain

Her whole body shrieks, I could do everything. Why did he run away?

Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya