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The cover of the five books featured in the Watchlist on a green background: This Room Is Impossible...

The Watchlist: May 2025

By Tobias Carroll

Nonfiction by Iman Mersal, poetry by Lee Min-ha, and fiction by Yang Hao: Tobias Carroll recommends all this and more in his May Watchlist.

A collage of 8 debut women writers. Left to right: Emma Braslavsky, Olivia Duchesne, Fadma Farras,...

8 Debut Women Writers to Read on International Women’s Day

By Elete Nelson-Fearon

In honor of International Women’s Day 2025, WWB spotlights 8 women writers who have celebrated their English-language debut this past year.

A snail with a light brown shell crawling on a terrain that seems to be moss-covered concrete

Photo by Min An from Pexels. Public domain.

Snail Diaries

By Soňa Uriková

Miško wrote in his diary that snails are asinine.

Translated from Slovak by Magdalena Mullek

Multilingual

Delta

By Zuska Kepplová

She laughed and calmly walked naked to the end of Europe.

Translated from Slovak by Magdalena Mullek

From “Boat Number Five”

By Monika Kompaníková

The train left. The woman didn’t come.

Translated from Slovak by Janet Livingstone

Bermuda Triangle

By Jaroslava Blažková

Would you believe it, he's pulled through again!

Translated from Slovak by Magdalena Mullek

Sea Anemone

By Uršuľa Kovalyk

“I did smoke. . . but with what, my dear, with what!”

Translated from Slovak by Julia Sherwood & Peter Sherwood

Multilingual

Contemporary Women’s Writing in Slovakia

By Julia Sherwood

Although very close to Czech (as well as to Polish), Slovak is in fact a distinct language with its own traditions, culture, and literature.

Finale

By Svetlana Žuchová

How did they get my number . . . ?

Translated from Slovak by Charles Sabatos

From “I Can’t Stand Still”: An Interview with Jáchym Topol

By Tomáš Weiss

Weiss: What was your first time out of the country?Topol: My first time was in East Germany with my mom. She took my brother and me to the seaside there. That change—all of a sudden by the sea in the…

Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker