Stuck in a reading slump? Check out Tobias Carroll's recommendations of six new books of fiction, poetry, and graphic lit to read now, translated from Greek, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and more.

The first sprout I think to Ædnan was an image I saw, an inner image, of a woman, an older woman and her kind of silence, the silence she had in her face and the seriousness she had. I struggled for a long time to approach her and get into her life and…

When you’re a kid, being poor is hell on earth.

Tobias Carroll recommends five new books in translation from Cuba, Germany, Haiti, Spain, and Sweden, ranging from unsettling short stories to atmospheric prose poetry.

In this excerpt from O, her feminist retelling of Othello, Swedish poet Judith Kiros reflects on immigration, language conformity, and cultural adjustment.

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.

WWB staff members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they're most looking forward to in 2024.

Tobias Carroll recommends new and exciting reads from Angola, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

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

She had seen the man make the sign for death, so she knew this was serious.

I have been opening this book since 2018 and over the years, I have become many different readers.

For Sámi literature to continue playing its essential role in our culture and to expand its benefits, we need more writers, readers, and translators, which is impossible without support—both financially and through the education system.

The children ask where they are going. They, too, have begun to grasp that they are not heading home.

Poet, queer activist, and spoken-word artist Rönn-Lisa Zakrisson speaks to sex, politics, and colonialism in Sápmi.

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

With this needle she can create anew what would otherwise disappear.

Are there homosexual reindeer herders?

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

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Morocco, Argentina, Poland, Chile, Sweden, and Tunisia.

Engaging the evolving dialogue that broadens definitions of global Blackness.

What happened next, I will never quite understand.

Whose story gets to be told?

What kind of home is it / where no one dares say / our son’s name

He squinted at me, swaying in the wind. Blood or soil, he asked.

The sun rose over the mountaintop in a blaze of blue and green and so the day began.

He said, this is real, and then he pulled up his shirt and showed us the scars under his arm.

When you’ve always worked for a low wage, getting a higher wage is a challenge.

I say change is always painful, / someone has to be the first.

While traveling to the Alhambra, Johannes Anyuru meditates on his relationship to Islam’s transnational history and present.

I want to reside in the hard and permanent / so I construct a suite of poems and a man to live inside

Though much of the art here may be in black and white, the topics addressed are anything but.

It's almost impossible to get in, but getting kicked out is easy.

There was no avoiding the fact that Paco Parra wanted Muriel all to himself.

What do we know about our parents?

Above an opening in the robot's chest are the words In the name of Jesus protect man and beast from the followers of Satan.

“Let us make a pact, gentlemen. Let us brew a Magical Potion and drink together.

like some awesome Saturday night exoticdancer at the apocalypse

It's a heavy burnt-out lamp, tipped over in the cold.

The shadow-play of thoughts / exposed what words concealed.

Rows of skulls. Simple and incomprehensible.

It was so significant that I often, at least in my mind, return to the place where it all happened.

was it at the Palace of Sport in 1952? a whole school class

I want to send a dream far from here.

Twenty-two things not to be trusted: /not night-old ice, not a winter in Skåne

even in our sleep there are cables / between us.

Waking up is a jump, a skydive from the dream.

All female psychiatric computers are named Eliza, in accordance with a fine old tradition.

The moment Patrik Ohlsson unfolded the raffle ticket and saw the number for the first time, he noticed the intriguing ambiguity.

Through the window I saw him throw the bundle onto the fire and stand over it until it caught light.

I listen to all the voices, I hear their care, their rage Hear all

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