WWB Daily

“I began thinking about what it would mean to be a translation critic, and whether I wanted to become one.” ...read more

"I can only wonder what Graciliano Ramos would think of a woman translating his tour-de-force of what we today would call 'toxic masculinity'!" ...read more

“I don’t find it useful or necessary to write about the real world the exact moment that strange and terrifying things happen.“ ...read more

“For me, there is no Algeria, only Annaba, where the Barbary coast yawns out.” ...read more

“The rules are the same as always, gentlemen: the most money gets the best prize.” ...read more

“Rubem was generous in every sense of the word.” ...read more

In celebration of World Book Day, eleven indie presses recommend recent or forthcoming books in translation. ...read more

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new and forthcoming works translated from Croatian, Korean, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Swedish. ...read more

“The Paris I grew to love isn’t gone, but right now it is shutting down.” ...read more

“The young Syrian traveler seemed to be doomed to a shadowy existence in the footnotes of literary history until an Arabic manuscript was unearthed in the Vatican Library.” ...read more