"These poems are laden with grief, but also, to my ears, carry a tremendous love and hope, without which, surely, there could be no endurance," writes critic Mandana Chaffa. With members across ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Writers, true stories, wrong numbers, and chance: Eduardo Lago spins an homage to the late Paul Auster. Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in ...

Raúl Rivero is one of Cuba's best-known dissident journalists and a figurehead of the country's beleaguered independent press. He was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, but ...

No matter how many times he put the kitten back down on the floor, it leaped right back up, even though the bed was many times its height. Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

We do not see translations of books that will unsettle the reading community, and provoke them to be different than who they want to be. For translators from under-represented languages like ours, the ...

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… ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Image: Yasmeen Abdullah, “The Butterfly Effect.” By arrangement with the artist. Only a small percentage of the literature published in Sudan is written by women, and even less finds its way into ...

Image: Maouya Azziz, Untitled. Courtesy of Imago Mundi. This month we present fiction and poetry from Mauritania. Simultaneously Arab, West African, Saharan, and Sahelian, and straddling the ...