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Switzerland

two rows of people playing pachinko

Tischbeinahe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Pachinko Parlor

By Elisa Shua Dusapin

“Do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She sliced off part of her own tongue.”

Translated from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

Road Stories: International Writing on Travel

By Susan Harris

Some of the writers here document their own trips, while others invent characters and send them on the road.

From “Staying Gone”

By Ulrike Ulrich

She wonders why she’s doing this to herself. Is it supposed to be some kind of test?

Translated from German by Anne Posten

Multimedia

Fish Television

I was clouds transforming, a sinking billow.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

Found on the Tracks: European Writing on Train Travel

Trains . . . unite many dichotomies: the exotic and the banal, freedom and luxury, nostalgia and modernity, the possible and the real.

The Avenging Whip

In my line of business, people don't talk much.

Translated from French by Ros Schwartz

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