It’s the last day of Pride Month and we're in the middle of a heatwave. What a perfect time to share a steamy teaser of our 2027 title Bed Works by Khaled Alesmael, translated from the Arabic by @leriprice.bsky.social Enjoy! worldeditions.org/product/bedw...

'thought-provoking and involving' writes @alifeinbooks.bsky.social

Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan: Identity, belonging and food alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/06/good... @worldedbooks.bsky.social

@worldedbooks.bsky.social published SELAMLIK: a lovely idea, a word we need in the WHOLE world, longlisted for the 2025 PEN Translation Prize! #PrideMonth around the world! 🌈📚 #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2024/06/sela...

@worldedbooks.bsky.social published SELAMLIK: a lovely idea, a word we need in the WHOLE world, longlisted for the 2025 PEN Translation Prize! #PrideMonth around the world! 🌈📚 #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2024/06/sela...

"Portrays a changing Hong Kong alongside developments in London’s Chinatown, delivering a touching look at the search for home." @ala-booklist.bsky.social "A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the lived generational texture of what’s happening now in Hong Kong.” @naoisedolan.bsky.social

My review of Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan #GoodbyeChinatown #books #bookreviews #booksky @worldedbooks.bsky.social

Books to Look Out For in June 2026: Part Two alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/05/book... including titles from @worldedbooks.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com @jonathancape.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com

It’s @consortiumbooks.bsky.social Sales Conference today and we’re bribing our sales team 😉. Those are alfajores, traditional Argentine sweets to celebrate our inaugural Read the World A to Z novel from Argentina. @willmorningstar.bsky.social @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @marianatravacio.bsky.social

Don't miss this exciting event at @penamerica.bsky.social World Voices Festival with @jeremytiang.bsky.social! Writing Across Forms: A Conversation With Author-Playwrights on Fri. May 1, 7pm at Goethe-Institut New York. worldvoices.pen.org/event/writin...

Also in September—US & UK @worldedbooks.bsky.social—preorder now The Long Version, by Petra Hůlová, trans. @alexzucker.bsky.social A novelist’s daughter is convinced her mom’s teenage affair with an older writer scarred her for life. Her mom disagrees. Who’s right? bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

THE PERFECT CIRCLE by CLAUDIA PETRUCCI and translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel via @worldedbooks.bsky.social is a beautiful, not perfect, read: #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Publishing Today! The Perfect Circle by Claudia Petrucci, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel "A thrilling study of time that playfully intertwines birth and death, motherhood and human extinction." —Kirkus Reviews "A refined revenge story" —Il Piccolo

Dystopian #SFinTranslation out today from @worldedbooks.bsky.social: worldeditions.org/product/the-...

My review of the intriguing & atmospheric The Perfect Circle by Claudia Petrucci, translated by Anne Milano Appel @worldedbooks.bsky.social #books #bookreviews #booksky

Check it out! @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @marianatravacio.bsky.social @willmorningstar.bsky.social @jeremytiang.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Thank you to J. Walsh for this beautiful review of Catalina Infante's The Cracks We Bear in @worldlittoday.bsky.social! The Cracks We Bear is out now, in my translation, from @worldedbooks.bsky.social.

Co-Translating All That Dies in April: A Conversation between @willmorningstar.bsky.social and @samanthaschnee.bsky.social in Latin American Literature Today @marianatravacio.bsky.social latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2026/03/co-t...

Authoritarian leaders “are shit-scared of these things called books”. UK-based Hong Kong writer Kit Fan on the impact of authoritarianism on publishing at a panel with @englishpen, as quoted by @guardian. Read more below! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Learn more about Read the World A to Z worldeditions.org/read-the-wor...

We are so excited to launch our new READ THE WORLD A TO Z series. Travel the globe with the most influential voices from Argentina to Zambia! @marianatravacio.bsky.social @samanthaschnee.bsky.social @willmorningstar.bsky.social @jeremytiang.bsky.social

So proud 🥲!

A book review of The Cut Line by Carolina Pihelgas, translated from the Estonian Lõikejoon, is now out on our site. Check it out below! #litmag #literarymagazine #translation #revistachilena #revistaliteraria #bookblog #publishing #carolinapihelgas www.ultramarinereview.com/post/the-cut...

Reading/finishing off some cool books this w/e &week.

To read the full list of WWB’s 2025 staff recommendations, head to our website or click the link below: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Violet and I chose these 48 books as our top feminist reads of the year for @msmagazine.com! Feat @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @annanorth.bsky.social @kweingarten.bsky.social & more msmagazine.com/2025/12/19/b...

@worldedbooks.bsky.social brought out THE CUT LINE by CAROLINA PIHELGAS (translated from Estonian by Darcy Hurford) for a deep look into 21st-century struggles...personal, societal, existential #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Published today! The Cut Line by Carolina Pihelgas, translated from the Estonian by Darcy Hurford. Recommended as Must Read translation by @electricliterature.com

THE CRACKS WE BEAR by Catalina Infante and translated by Michelle Mirabella "sings with a strong voice and incisive questions about mothering, both the act of being mothered and that of becoming one, and the interplay between these roles of mother and daughter." @worldedbooks.bsky.social

Announcing 50 finalists for our 2026 Literary Awards and two career achievement honorees—Edwidge Danticat will receive the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, and Julia Cho will receive the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award. pen.org/press-releas...

Hurray! Rio Muerto is on the list! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Ricardo Silva Romero! 🥂🥂🥂

All That Dies in April by Mariana Travacio, Samantha Schnee (tr.), Will Morningstar (tr.), from @worldedbooks.bsky.social. I don't know if you can call the essence of a book potent, but this was perfect. hararereview.com/2025/09/25/a...

My final review of the year was of A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES by Natalia García Freire (tr. Victor Meadowcroft for @worldedbooks.bsky.social). Violent catharsis in a colonized landscape. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/t...

Immensely proud to see my translation of Ricardo Silva's 'Río Muerto' featured on the longlist for the 2026 PEN Translation Prize among such fantastic company! I'll be forever grateful to @worldedbooks.bsky.social for considering me as the translator for this powerful, moving and timely novel.

Congratulations, Ricardo Silva Romero and @furiousleeper.bsky.social! So thrilled to see Rio Muerto on the list! 🍾🥂🍾

Next, from @worldedbooks.bsky.social , is THE CRACKS WE BEAR by Catalina Infante Beovic (tr. @michellemirabella.bsky.social ), Executive Director Elisabeth Jaquette’s choice: bookshop.org/a/169/978164...

Exciting event news for our readers in Milwaukee! Join translators Alta L Price and Alex Niemi at @woodlandpattern.bsky.social as they read from and discuss work from Juli Zeh and Laura Vazquez woodlandpattern.org/events/readi...

Currently Reading: #TheCutLine by Carolina Pihelgas. Will be published 3rd February by @worldedbooks.bsky.social. Thank you to them & @netgalley.bsky.social for the ARC. #BookSky 📚💙 #books

Tomorrow at 7pm at @communitybookstore.bsky.social in Brooklyn! Don’t miss this conversation between first-time translators @michellemirabella.bsky.social and @willmorningstar.bsky.social, moderated by Anderson Tepper! communitybookstore.net/events/48469

Just published! "Chilean writer Infante’s penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch." @publisherswkly.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social

Can’t believe it’s finally pub day for The Cracks We Bear by Catalina Infante out today from @worldedbooks.bsky.social!! Thank you to Catalina, our publisher Christine Swedowsky, my editor Shimanto Reza, and my family, friends, and colleagues for their support!

Don't miss this reading by translator @michellemirabella.bsky.social from #Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic's debut novel THE CRACKS WE BEAR (@worldedbooks.bsky.social, 2025), an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief in a country still haunted by the Pinochet dictatorship.

With less than two weeks until pub day for #TheCracksWeBear by Catalina Infante (@worldedbooks.bsky.social), it is so special to have this essay out in @worldlittoday.bsky.social, the home of our original debut together as author and translator.

Pleased to announce these authors as featured guests for #VWF2025! Officially D-11 days from the 2025 Festival. • Saeed Teebi • Souvankham Thammavongsa • Madeleine Thien • Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social • Miriam Toews @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social • Georgia Toews

It's #BannedBooksWeek! @everylibrary.bsky.social is hosting Samar Yazbek, one of Syria’s most fearless literary voices, and renowned literary agent Yasmina Jraissati for a conversation about censorship & Arabic literature. Friday, 10/9 at 5pm EDT www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZ7...

These novels shed light on political conflicts and acts of resistance around the world. Meet Sheung-King (Batshit Seven) Maria Reva, (Endling), & Jeremy Tiang (State of Emergency) Oct 26. Presented w/ SFU’s World Languages and Literatures + Peliplat. writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! What better way to celebrate than with a nomination of A Carnival of Atrocities to the Cercador Prize! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Natalia Garcia Freire! www.cercadorprize.com

Such a wonderful day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social today! Thank you to everyone for coming out to say Hi and snag a signed copy of @jeremytiang.bsky.social‘s State of Emergency!

"Entrancing in its imagery and themes, “A Carnival of Atrocities” promises exactly what its title evokes: a nightmarish journey into the depravity of the human soul." @holaculturadc.bsky.social @furiousleeper.bsky.social holacultura.com/corruption-a...