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Your #IWD2023 Reading List

By Words Without Borders

In honor of International Women’s Day 2023, WWB recommends 10 forthcoming books written and translated by women and published by small presses.

The covers of all the books featured in the list

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.

An International Menagerie: Animal Stories

By Susan Harris

Some of the animals here possess the power of speech, deploying it to often subversive ends.

Spring Cleaning

By Yishai Sarid

“I’ve been married almost twenty-five years, and I’ve never gotten carried away on an adventure like this before.”

Translated from Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

And What If Love Is Stronger? The Queer Issue

By Susan Harris

In this troubling context, the need for portrayals of queer lives around the world becomes even more urgent.

Rainbow Families: Four Parents and Two Children

By Karolina Domagalska

Go and find a father for your child.

Translated from Polish by Marta Dziurosz

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.

Instructions for Eating Granny Ora’s Kibbeh

Israeli cuisine is a mystery, a black hole, a utopia.

Translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

Multilingual

Urban Tails

By Ilana Zeffren

Where are they? It's late.

Translated by the author

Comics and Graphic Narratives: A Global Cultural Commons

By Dominic Davies

Comics themselves have a role to play in the construction of a more globally aware social consciousness.

Yiddish Literature and the Transnational Republic of Jewish Letters

By Sebastian Schulman

Yiddish literature occupies the precarious position of an informed outsider.

Ingathering of Exiles

Him I believe, even if he is Polish.

Translated from Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy

From “Raking Light from Ashes”

By Relli Robinson

Now you’ll be our daughter a little bit too.

Translated from Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

Graphic Novels at WWB: The First Ten Years

By Susan Harris

The narrative threads that weave through the last ten years tell a tale in themselves.

The Fall

By Galit Seliktar & Gilad Seliktar

It parachuted down.

Translated by On Barak

The Queer Issue V: Impressions from a Passing Train

By Rohan Kamicheril

The appeal of the Queer Issue is in seeing that great ambition writ small, in discovering the swarm of details and experience that cohere into the big picture of world writing.

Full Body Scan

Do you know anyone who died in the army?

Translated by the author

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The Sugar Expert

By Hadar Reuven

They reached the streetlight every time, except once.

Translated by Hadar Reuven & Shachar Galek

Hysteric Behavior #3

It's actually nice to talk to strangers.

Translated by G. H. Freedman

Ten Short Pieces

By Alex Epstein

Who, these days, hasn't woken from a dream of murdering an angel?

Translated from Hebrew by Becka Mara McKay

Multilingual

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