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- Watchlist
The Watchlist: February 2021
by Tobias Carroll
Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new and forthcoming books translated from Arabic, French, Russian, Swedish, and Japanese. ...read more
- Essays
Translating Dagestan in Alisa Ganieva’s “Munkar and Nakir”
by Sabrina Jaszi
From folk fertility practices to smartphones, the story depicts the specificity and variety of post-Soviet lives. ...read more
- Interviews
A Wave in the Sea: Najwan Darwish on “Exhausted on the Cross”
by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
It's impossible to be the same person in the translation, because poetry itself is a kind of translation. ...read more
- First Read
The Guest
by György Dragomán
We must work hungry and thirsty today, because only in that way will there be true cleanliness. ...read more
- Essays
Women Writing War Redux: Ukraine’s Iya Kiva
by Katherine E. Young
Poetically speaking, Kiva is something of a contradiction. ...read more
- News
Words Without Borders Announces 2021 Poems in Translation Contest
Contest winners to be selected by Airea D. Matthews; winning poems to be published on Poem-a-Day and WWB. ...read more
- Essays
“Na Dem Dey Hunt Whales”: Onyinye Uwolloh’s New “Moby-Dick” in Nigerian Pidgin
by Jesse Amar
"Ishmael Na My Name" asserts the power and utility of Nigerian Pidgin as a literary language. ...read more
- First Read
An Adventure Worthy of an Author
by Li Juan
I would follow the migrating herds deep into the desert. ...read more
- City and the Writer
The City and the Writer: In Thessaloniki with Christopher Bakken
by Nathalie Handal
Dig anywhere in the city and you collide with history. ...read more
- Essays
Translating Multilingual Wordplay in Danyil Zadorozhnyi’s “Letter to Ukraine”
by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
How do you translate a poem into a single language when it is interested in the liminal space between two languages? ...read more