Jordanian poet Zuhair Abu Shayeb questions the limitations of history, water, and the past in this fervent poem.

In this introduction to our collection of Jordanian writing, guest editor Addie Leak details the country's diverse culture ...

Spanning nine countries from the Caribbean and Mexico down to Chile and Argentina, these books are a vibrant showcase of the diversity in storytelling and illustration styles from authors writing for ...

In this excerpt from 2024 Nobel Laureate in Literature Han Kang's Booker Prize-winning novel, a man reels as his wife suddenly decides to give up meat. Words Without Borders is the premier destination ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

No matter how many times he put the kitten back down on the floor, it leaped right back up, even though the bed was many times its height. Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global ...

Raúl Rivero is one of Cuba's best-known dissident journalists and a figurehead of the country's beleaguered independent press. He was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, but ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary ...

Image: Maouya Azziz, Untitled. Courtesy of Imago Mundi. This month we present fiction and poetry from Mauritania. Simultaneously Arab, West African, Saharan, and Sahelian, and straddling the ...

“The novel, delivered to us in Mayada Ibrahim and Adil Babikir’s elegant English translation, stands as a gripping testament to the dream of liberation and love in the era of slavery’s dusk,” writes ...