Jordanian poet Zuhair Abu Shayeb questions the limitations of history, water, and the past in this fervent poem.

In this introduction to our collection of Jordanian writing, guest editor Addie Leak details the country's diverse culture ...

The novel [...] stands as a gripping testament to the dream of liberation and love in the era of slavery’s dusk,” writes ...

In this excerpt from 2024 Nobel Laureate in Literature Han Kang's Booker Prize-winning novel, a man reels as his wife suddenly decides to give up meat. Words Without Borders is the premier destination ...

Image: Do Ho Suh, “Fallen Star,” 2012 © Do Ho Suh. Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego. Photo: Philipp Scholz Rittermann This month we’re ...

Image: Eva Navarro, Mother and Son, 2014, acrylic on board, 40 X 40cm. This month we’re turning to our archives for international stories of parents and children. Tales of widowed fathers, ambivalent ...

Spanning nine countries from the Caribbean and Mexico down to Chile and Argentina, these books are a vibrant showcase of the diversity in storytelling and illustration styles from authors writing for ...

"[The translator's] work—in passages of soaring beauty and breathtaking sorrow, haunting tragedy and delirious joy—captures the individual tones of the novel’s two generations," writes critic Cory ...

From an anthology of Yazidi poetry to Scholastique Mukasonga's latest novel, Tobias Carroll recommends September's must-reads in translation. From Black Square Editions | Briefcases From Caracas by ...

What particular translation challenges arose as this book was brought into English? Were they points that the author anticipated, or was there something of a process of discovery in which the author ...

Najwan Darwish, Palestine’s most celebrated contemporary poet, cuts across history and time in this third selection in the 2024 Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets National Translation ...