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.

He was as cool as ice, the blue-eyed motherfucker even offered us a drink.

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!”

I opened it and wrote the first date, and what would be the first chapter of that extraordinary life that was my own.

The epitaph on her tombstone was written by Pablo Neruda.

The truth is that the gringos took advantage of several things

In that room I met practically the entire fauna of the epoch.

I feel the promises impressed by your lips.I repeat the ringing syllables of your name

I want to know where you got this filth.

The newspapers report daily on collective graves, on bullets raining down in bars, drug rehab centers, city streets, at school gates, and in churches.

In Mexico, people will pay up to $70,000 dollars for a license to hunt and kill a bighorn sheep. Killing a man is much cheaper.

Every street corner in Juarez harbors the story of a murder

The parakeet is cocaine, the rooster is the marijuana and the nanny goat is an AK-47 assault rifle.

This is the shield we use to protect ourselves: with so many people involved, I’m not going to be the first to act.