It's the good stuff. Afghani.

That night, it was a Ford that stopped.

Some say that the region in western France called “Les Mauges” derived its name from the words MAUvaises GEns—“mean folk.” The inhabitants of this rural, Catholic, working-class region have long been…

You're young and I don't want my feelings to get hurt!

“Remember that safe I carried off with Adjaj and Bernard and opened at my dad’s?”

I wanted it too . . . I would have given anything

We have nations that we don't want.

“If one of those things explodes, the city’ll blow up too.”

“When we get to Tripoli, you're on your own.”

Regular readers of Words without Borders will remember Otto Bohater, the downbeat Warsaw detective, and his faithful partner, Watson the White Rat, who appeared in an extract from Essence in 2007. Their…

Both travel book and testimony, L’intruse records the experiences of a French human rights activist in the Middle East. Roannie, a retired pediatrician and member of Amnesty International, spent…

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The Eternonaut is a seminal work of Latin American literature. It’s been translated from Spanish into Italian and French, but never (until now) English. This section is taken from the original version…

Write why you drew that cartoon and why you chose a Turkish word.

But even were I to be done away with... those who are like me would remain .

Kang Yeong - Nam: Professor ! The signal from comrade Cheol - Ryeong's transmitter is coming from the direction of the basement here .

The Elite Youth Science Squad from North Korea is back for part two of their adventure..

The people say: Step down now!

From Quaderni Ucraini. Copyright 2010 by Igort. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel. Translation copyright 2011 by Jamie Richards. All rights reserved.

The adaptation that follows was inspired by a short story (also in this month’s issue), “Davin Chan Moves Out,” by the celebrated Hong Kong novelist and essayist Xi Xi. Chihoi’s version, which…

Dr. Heo Seung - Min: To protect the nature preserve and succeed in our vital research , we must unearth the secret of Frequency A , which is the source of these mysterious incidents !

What does a man need to live? A bit of bread is enough.

King-Ma Has Come (Ma Huang Jiang Lin) is a product of the hugely popular kuso culture in Asia. Also known as egao in Mandarin Chinese, the genre is known for its campy humor and outrageous parodies of…

The graphic novel Farm 54 brings together three semi-autobiographical stories from the childhood, puberty, and early adulthood (military service years) of its female protagonist, growing up in Israel’s…

The Total corporation—jewel in the crown of the French economy—maintains a presence in many countries across the globe, wherever there are fossil fuels to exploit. To do so, it hires locals, but also…

© 2008 Gerner & L’Association. Published by arrangement with L’Association. Translation © 2009 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.

Translation copyright 2009 by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Geesu Lee. All rights reserved.

He’s a pickpocket. I want his fingers to be agile enough he’ll be able to ‘work’ again.

The genius behind all those great works is sitting right next to me! Strange he doesn’t seem at all different from any other young guy…

Since the ideology and values conveyed in children’s books tend to be relatively transparent in all cultures, I hope this excerpt from Blizzard in the Jungle gives a useful glimpse into the self-representation…

Author’s Note: “The Pig” is an allegorical short story, but its scope is not so restricted as it may seem at first. It would be more correctly defined as a “civil” story,…