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December 6th, 2021by Miguelángel Meza
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- First Read
Little Check Marks on Our Names
by Saša Stanišiç
If you hesitated or stammered like you didn’t know your own major, the visa was possibly fake. ...read more
- First Read
An Evening of Sugar-Eating
by Lee Young-ju
If there’s sugar left in our pockets, we’re not woman and man. ...read more
- Watchlist
The Watchlist: November 2021
by Tobias Carroll
Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books translated from Polish, French, Japanese, Hebrew, Italian, and Galician. ...read more
- News
Introducing WWB’s Education Fellow, Allison Tim
by Words Without Borders
My ability to speak French helped me adapt to life [in France], but in South Korea, I primarily learned through observation. ...read more
- First Read
Portrait of a Libyan Scream
by Najwa Bin Shatwan
Ikhmayyis was neither annoyed nor upset with the historical lamppost’s choice to fall on him. ...read more
- News
Introducing WWB’s Editorial Fellow, Soleil Davíd
by Words Without Borders
I see translation as a way for me to engage with one facet of my country’s literature, a hopefully productive excuse to read works in Tagalog and Bikol. ...read more
- Interviews
Telling the Stories of China’s “Illegal Children”: Shen Yang and Roseann Lake in Conversation
by Shen Yang and Roseann Lake
As an illegal excess-birth child myself, I have to bear witness. ...read more
- Essays
The Literary Life of K-pop Lyrics
by Sang Young Park
I’d accumulated what is surely the biggest collection of gem-like K-pop lyrics in the world. ...read more
- Interviews
The Poetry of Radical Female Fighters: Meena Kandasamy on Translating Women from the Tamil Eelam
by Suhasini Patni
When you are not held back by any fear, you can write songs of liberation. ...read more
- Watchlist
The Watchlist: October 2021
by Tobias Carroll
Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books translated from Irish, Korean, Arabic, Galician, Spanish, and Dutch. ...read more