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A man paddles a canoe in a river at sunset

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Roots

By Madhurima Barua

The stench of country liquor assaults her. Her husband is tottering.

Translated from Assamese by Syeda Shaheen Jeenat Suhailey

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The White Tablecloth

Eight years and I’m still not over it.

Translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem

A Night in Timimoun

By Nina Bouraoui

It’s your skin I feel sliding beneath my soapy palms.

Translated from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

The Husband and His Brother

By Björn Halldórsson

When Böddi came back to Iceland a month later, he was engaged.

Translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer

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Firstclaw

By Sachiko Kashiwaba

Firstclaw’s love spells were rumored to be unusually effective.

Translated from Japanese by Avery Fischer Udagawa

Al Fisaikra

By Qatari Oral Tradition

Set me free and I'll make you rich.

Translated from Arabic by Kholoud Saleh

The Head of Household Manifesto

By Catalina Mena

The hearth is a fire that’s always being extinguished.

Translated from Spanish by Susannah Greenblatt

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My Name’s Nancy

By Bruno Lloret

When did you agree to live like a widow before your time?

Translated from Spanish by Ellen Jones

Devdas

By Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

She searched for an answer, embarrassed for the first time in her life at having to say what she was about to.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

The House of Wax

By Subodh Ghosh

“Have you been able to forget me?”

Translated from Bengali by Somrita Ganguly

Heeng Kochuri

By Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

I cannot serve a glass of water to a Brahmin’s son.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

Shaheb Bibi Golam

It was late. Who knew where Bhootnath could buy liquor at this hour?

Translated from Bengali by Somrita Ganguly

Bengali to Bollywood

By Arunava Sinha

Arunava Sinha introduces the four stories in our December feature exploring Bollywood’s debt to Bengali writers.India’s Hindi film industry is the largest in the world in terms of the number…

My Grandfather and Sitt Biba

By Mohammed Abdelnabi

I was convinced that I really had caused the death of the one I loved most.

Translated from Arabic by Nariman Youssef

photo of a half-open blue wooden door with a latch

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The Latch

By Amar Nyaupane

Why did he have to sleep with his bride?

Translated from Nepali by Ajit Baral

The Vegetarian

Your body smells of meat.

Translated from Korean by Deborah Smith

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Bonsai

By Guadalupe Nettel

If I was a cactus, what kind of plant was Midori?

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

knight from chess set

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The Knight

By Olga Tokarczuk

Why are you crying? he said. Over chess, over that knight?

Translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft

The Wondrous Deer of the Eternal Hunt

By Svetlana Alexievich

He was a wildly lonely person. I loved him.

Translated from Russian by Marian Schwartz

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