They speak to the trees in the language / of trees and to the grass in the language of grass

Tobias Carroll recommends six new books in translation you won't want to miss this month, from Bengali science fiction to an early novel by renowned Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz.

Tobias Carroll recommends six books to start off the new year, from a classic of Danish science fiction to Álvaro Enrigue's reimagining of sixteenth-century Mexico.

Tobias Carroll recommends a satirical French graphic novel, poetry from Hong Kong, novels from Côte d’Ivoire and Mexico, and a trans memoir from Italy.

At the end of the twenty-second century and in the midst of the explosion of what people across many parts of the world spontaneously began to refer to as “collective earth aesthetics,” it is perhaps disconcerting to return to a discussion of art and…

Trust is the lifeblood of successful author-translator collaborations, and by trusting me so unwaveringly, Fernanda has also shown me how to trust myself.

For Women in Translation Month, a dozen translators recommend recent favorite books written and translated by women.

Femicide remains largely invisible in both academic literature and popular narratives in the United States. Why?

With canine relish and human shame, I’d rather sniff than taste.

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

Our staff, contributors, and board members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they're looking forward to in 2023.

Translation, an obsessive interpretive art in which the boundaries between guest and host are tenderly and strenuously unstable, is my constant companion while I learn what it means to build a life in a country and culture different from the one I was…

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

For days, / years, they walked with jade beneath their tongues, seeking / home.

Recent and forthcoming poetry in translation from Mexico, South Korea, Croatia, Haiti, and more.

I like to imagine that, in this defining moment, as my grandfather struggled with the dead man’s sinews, he was able to calm his rage for a moment and laugh.

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books from Cameroon, Mexico, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and Kazakhstan.

A playlist for Hernán Bravo Varela's eulogy for his father and the music that he loved

Anything audible can be remembered.

Two go-betweens working a corrupt legal system find themselves being recruited by a dangerous employer in this story from Fernanda Melchor's This Is Not Miami, nominated for the 2023 National Book Award for Translation.

Tobias Carroll recommends noteworthy new books translated from Tibetan, Vietnamese, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, and Croatian.

Tobias Carroll recommends noteworthy new books translated from Ukrainian, Indonesian, Persian, Japanese, and Spanish.

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.

The protagonist of this month’s work is the natural world in its multitudes.

before their paths divided, they formed, together, three glints of light and shadow moving on at last

The city has devoured itself over and over again.

Global warming manifests in obvious ways.

So this is how it all ends . . .

These are essays with a roving gaze whose authors travel through geographic and intellectual spaces with the same ease with which we used to walk around in New York.

Özdamar knew that arriving in a country with no return ticket meant voluntarily surrendering to an indeterminate foreignness.

Women were confined to reading prayer books and religious hymns. And they wrote in the margins. Centuries went by. Those marginalia are, in fact, the books I need to read.

Robert Louis Stevenson says that to tour lighthouses is “to visit past centuries.”

Although I wasn't really worried. I mean not really worried about him; you know what I mean?

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

This issue is not a departure but a continuation.

The house knew how to determine what was important.

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

He was a candy you wanted to pop in your mouth and suck real slow.

Every time she visited, she felt a crushing weariness, as though her entire life were caving in on her.

You have not yet realized that you are misunderstanding everything.

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

And to think I swore I’d stay out of trouble on this side of the world.

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

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

The skyscraper where I grew up was demolished decades ago and supplanted by a thousand-story housing block.

The newlyweds reached his table and Romero hid his repugnance behind hypocritical congratulations.

All Sor Juana scholars concur that Sor Juana was a monster.

You have to be a savage to play this role. It’s essential.

There’s an obvious irony in trying to promote diverse Mexican literatures by means of a handful of texts.

“Juárez has died, Your Majesty.”

This story is the worst story in the world—it's just terrible.

Perhaps language, especially written and read, acquaints time with space.

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.

“You're so gay you even want to get it on with men in cartoon strips!”