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A picture of the mast of a Hōkūleʻa (a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe.)

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Regeneration: The Seeds of Life

By Virginie Hoifua Te Matagi Tafilagi-Takala

Poet Virginie Hoifua Te Matagi Tafilagi of Wallis and Futuna celebrates Pacific peoples and their age-old history of transoceanic voyaging.

Translated from French by Colin Anderson

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Photo by Sebastian Pena Lambarri on Unsplash

Nepal

By Marina Gudelj

“Mom was like, ‘The Himalayas? She’s never even climbed the Mosor, right here on her doorstep.’”

Translated from Croatian by Ena Selimović

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Ognosia

By Olga Tokarczuk

We will need new maps as well as the courage and humor of travelers who won’t hesitate to stick their heads outside the sphere of the world-up-to-this-point, beyond the horizon of existing dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft

A landscape of dunes in Timimoun under a blue sky

Chettouh Nabil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Medical tools hang on the wall in a doctor's office.

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In Human-Made Society

By Eva Rún Snorradóttir

In order to get a visa, they had to explain to him how two women went about having sex.

Translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer

Dawn

By Miguelángel Meza

water boils up from grouped stones, grips me.

Translated from Guaraní by Tracy K. Lewis & Miguelángel Meza

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Peripatetics: The Essays of Jazmina Barrera, Karen Villeda, and Mariana Oliver

By Charlotte Whittle

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’s Tongue

By Mariana Oliver

Özdamar knew that arriving in a country with no return ticket meant voluntarily surrendering to an indeterminate foreignness.

Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches

Visegrád

By Karen Villeda

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.

Translated from Spanish by Charlotte Whittle

Yaquina Head

By Jazmina Barrera

Robert Louis Stevenson says that to tour lighthouses is “to visit past centuries.”

Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

The Sunni and His Friend

By Qatari Oral Tradition

Cats. Carry cats!

Translated from Arabic by Tariq Ahmed

We Usually Ask Literature to Be Humanizing Only When It’s from “Over There”

By M. Lynx Qualey

Our dignified survival as a species probably depends on finding ways to listen to each other.

The Reader’s Openness to the Unfamiliar

By Emmanuel Iduma

When we ask whether international literature can make us better travelers, who are the supposed beneficiaries?

On the “Good” in “Good Traveler”

By Shahnaz Habib

Travel is a self-improvement project that has been sold to us as a world-improvement project.

The Desire to Travel Responsibly Must Come before the Desire to Learn through Literature

By Tomaso Biancardi

There is a surer way for international literature to make us better tourists.

Fact or Fiction: Latin American Reportage

By Eric M. B. Becker

The writers in this month’s feature provide assurance that the genre is source of some of today’s most vibrant and compelling stories, fictional or otherwise.

Señor Socket and the Señora from the Café

By Julio Villanueva Chang

This is a tiny country famed for its happy cows, football fanatics, and melancholy.

Translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes

The Forest of Midwives

By Eliane Brum

Sculpted from the blood of mothers and the water of children, their hands birth a piece of Brazil.

Translated from Portuguese by Julia Sanches

Carranza? Taxis Don’t Go There

By Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez

Taxi drivers are indiscreet types.

Translated from Spanish by Geoff Bendeck

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

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Fish Television

By Peter Weber

I was clouds transforming, a sinking billow.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

Easy as Flushing

By Mikko Rimminen

The teenage girls began chatting aimlessly in rhythmic tones punctuated by robust usage of the F-word.

Translated from Finnish by Eva Buchwald

Travels with My Aunt

By Nicolás Casariego

A crabby Spanish widow meets her match during her travels in Madagascar in this story by Spanish writer Nicolás Casariego.

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

Crying over Light Green

By Ra Heeduk

No, the word “green” is hardly adequate.

Translated from Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Christopher Merrill

Other People

By Franziska Gerstenberg

You're not going to cause me any trouble now, are you, the conductor said.

Translated from German by Edna McCown

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Travel

Regeneration: The Seeds of Life

Nepal

Ognosia

A Night in Timimoun

Theo

The Forsaken

Barzakh

At Journey’s End

In Human-Made Society

Dawn

Peripatetics: The Essays of Jazmina Barrera, Karen Villeda, and Mariana Oliver

Özdamar’s Tongue

Visegrád

Yaquina Head

The Sunni and His Friend

We Usually Ask Literature to Be Humanizing Only When It’s from “Over There”

The Reader’s Openness to the Unfamiliar

On the “Good” in “Good Traveler”

The Desire to Travel Responsibly Must Come before the Desire to Learn through Literature

Fact or Fiction: Latin American Reportage

Señor Socket and the Señora from the Café

The Forest of Midwives

Carranza? Taxis Don’t Go There

From “Staying Gone”

Fish Television

Easy as Flushing

Travels with My Aunt

Crying over Light Green

Other People