@coryoldweiler.bsky.social examines FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez. In this choral novel, characters navigate a purgatory of displacement and existential uncertainty, akin to the DIVINE COMEDY. Read Oldweiler’s book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Happy Thursday! Check out this great poem in translation from @thetls.bsky.social with courtesy of @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social

Did you miss Tobias Carroll's Watchlist? It's full of great recommendations of books in translation that you should read this fall. Keep scrolling for more information about each book on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... tobiascarroll.bsky.social

This week, we’re publishing an excerpt from Lee Langvad’s novel TOLK (tr. by Hazel Evans). This scene follows an adoptee who has returned to Korea to visit her biological family, accompanied by an interpreter who’s also her girlfriend. To read click here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Did you miss Tobias Carroll's Watchlist? It's full of great recommendations of books in translation that you should read this fall. Keep scrolling for more information about each book on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... tobiascarroll.bsky.social

Check out @coryoldweiler.bsky.social 's book review!

A wonderful personal essay on family dynamics and what is lost in translation. "Maybe every immigrant daughter becomes a translator—first for her parents, then between her parents and herself. I used to think fluency meant speaking without mistakes. Now I think it means forgiving them."

Great titles for you to peruse! Did you know that Kim Hyesoon, Olga Tokarcszuk, Krisztina Tóth, and Han Kang are all WWB contributors? Head to our website to check out some of the pieces they've written for us throughout the years. wordswithoutborders.org

“It makes you want to be playful and clever like him, to carry that feeling into your text, and it just requires a bit of caution.” Translator Robin Moger on Mohamed Kheir’s SLEEP PHASE, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. At @wwborders.bsky.social

I have a new column on translated books up at @wwborders.bsky.social! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Fans of experimental poetry, rejoice: This week, we’re publishing “Chatrang” by Iranian multimedia artist Anima Ehtiat (tr. Kaveh Bassiri). Explore this interactive poem on our website and watch a video of Ehtiat playing the game: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

So many great books for you to read this November!

In this perceptive poem—our first translation from Nepal Bhasa—R. Manandhar attends to the birds that embody the city’s disorderly charm. Read “The Sparrow’s Chirrup” in a translation by David Hargreaves & Manandhar: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

SEA NOW hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey. Read the book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews... @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org

For Halloween, we’ve compiled this selection of fiction and poetry featuring spiders of all sorts: dwarf, poisonous, artistic, shapeshifting, hidden, and (perhaps the most haunting of all) human. Read them all here:

“The Sparrow’s Chirrup" by R. Manandhar (translated from Nepal Bhasa by David Hargreaves & R. Manandhar) imagines a disordered city through the life of its birds. Click here to read the full poem: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

In case you missed this interview: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... If you'd like to purchase SLEEP PHASE and support WWB click here: bookshop.org/a/169/978194...

Happy Halloween week! To get you in the spirit, we’ve curated a collection of prose and poetry inspired by spiders. Check out the link to find work translated from Korean, Icelandic, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian. wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

“Over and over, the narrator gently points to human foibles and flaws, while never losing sight of the larger context these humans live within.” In @wwborders.bsky.social‬‬, Rebecca Hussey reviews Eva Meijer’s newly translated novel, “Sea Now” - wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

We love to see poetry in translation on public transit!

If you missed this vivid 2021 novel— be sure to grab a copy here: bookshop.org/a/169/978132...

Looking good, feeling good, happy to be here!

We can't wait for the Gala to get started! 😍

To celebrate both next week’s release of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories and translator @gayadorno.bsky.social being a Literary Host at tonight’s @wwborders.bsky.social Gala, check out an excerpt of this Kurdish novel @thedialmag.bsky.social. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

We're so excited to see members of our community at our Gala tonight! It'll be a wonderful evening celebrating WWB's recent achievements and its bright future.

Great books on the longlist! What have been some of your favorite books in translation of 2025?

“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @catranslation.org @twolinespress.com

In this year's Lancaster International Fiction Lecture from Litfest's “Autumn Weekend,” Xiaolu Guo, the author of CALL ME ISHMAELLE,, reflects on the experience of disrupting and reinventing a classic of the Western canon. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK III) should be added to your tbr!

Take a look at this conversation with ALTA member Robin Myers about translating the music of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s novel WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING, shortlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. At @wwborders.bsky.social:

My review of SEA, NOW is up at @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

Author Mohamed Kheir and translator Robin Moger discuss SLEEP PHASE, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature: buff.ly/tlaTIqr

This month, @sevenstories.bsky.social released Krisztina Tóth’s dystopian novel EYE OF THE MONKEY in @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social 's translation. In this excerpt, a psychiatrist has an uncomfortable encounter with his wife, from whom he has recently separated: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Folks, it’s your last call to get tickets to our annual gala on 10/29 in NYC! Fund WWB's work and gift yourself a night of celebration with others who love global lit. It’s a win-win: just get a ticket at the link. secure.givelively.org/event/words-...

Count us in! Did you know that Olga Tokarczuk is one of our contributors? After reading CLOSED SEASON, be sure to check out Tokarczuk's work here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...

Author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and translator Robin Myers discuss WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING @ndbooks.bsky.social , shortlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read here:

Don't sleep on the WWB gala! 🎉👇

Check out our newest NBA interview with author Mohamed Kheir and translator Robin Moger! Together, they discuss SLEEP PHASE, longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature: buff.ly/tlaTIqr @twolinespress.com

This year, Xiaolu Guo took the stage for the fifth Lancaster International Fiction Lecture. She delves into the origins of her novel CALL ME ISHMAELLE, exploring what it means to connect with and challenge the Western literary canon. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Honored to be one of the literary hosts for this year's WWB gala. Come join us to celebrate + support this beloved magazine! I am told there will be dancing 🪩 wwborders.live/2025Gala

Our annual gala allows WWB keep publishing writing from all over the globe, bringing global lit to students, and much more. In a hard moment for arts funding, this event is more essential than ever. Grab a ticket to the 10/29 gala and help make WWB’s work possible: wwborders.live/2025Gala

Congrats to WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING for becoming a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature! Read this interview w/ author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and translator Robin Myers: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @ndbooks.bsky.social

For our DC friends! This is a really great opportunity to support literature in translation and see two of our contributors, Hamid Ismailov, and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, read in person.

Out today - this beautiful, thoughtful journey into the effects of guilt and trauma on the human psyche, set in post WW2 Switzerland. Haunting prose by Antônio Xerxenesky, in a superb translation by Daniel Hahn. Available now direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...

In case you missed it, ALTA member Robin Myers is the featured translator in the latest issue of Latin American Literature Today! Check out her cover, interviews, and reflections on translation. latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/issue/issue-...

“The dilemma was where the monkey’s soul [...] resided, if it resided anywhere at all.” Read an excerpt of Krisztina Tóth’s new novel EYE OF THE MONKEY ( @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @sevenstories.bsky.social

Calling all writers and translators! ✍️ The Snorri Sturluson Icelandic Fellowship offers a unique opportunity to spend focused, inspiring time in Iceland working on your creative or translation projects.

"Alluring . . . powerful . . . an indelible depiction of a community on the brink of disaster." @publisherswkly.bsky.social on THERE'S NO POINT IN DYING by Francisco Maciel, a novel set in a Rio de Janeiro favela, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato. www.publishersweekly.com/9781954404397

“When at last Judith made her way to the Akhmatova Museum, she was almost giddy—a pilgrim on sacred ground.” Renee H. Shea remembers poet, teacher, and translator Judith Hemschemeyer (1935–2025). worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/literar...

Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith, and Jennifer Russell discuss THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III), literary influences, and the translation process in this interview about the NBA-nominated novel. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org?p=49459&prev... @ndbooks.bsky.social