Hu Anyan (Tr. Jack Hargreaves) 9/9/25 Hu Anyan (Tr. Jack Hargreaves) 9/9/25

Delivering Parcels in Beijing

“The customer is king, do you not understand?”

Klára Vlasáková (Tr. Alex Zucker) 8/19/25 Klára Vlasáková (Tr. Alex Zucker) 8/19/25

The Cells

“I learned, in fact, how to make myself invisible.”

Grzegorz Bogdał (Tr. Dawid Mobolaji) 8/19/25 Grzegorz Bogdał (Tr. Dawid Mobolaji) 8/19/25

Lift Up Your Hearts

“There lay the space suit, its sleeves and legs twisted unnaturally, like a victim of a fall from a great height.”

Sener Ozmen (Tr. Nicholas Glastonbury) 8/19/25 Sener Ozmen (Tr. Nicholas Glastonbury) 8/19/25

The Competition of Unfinished Stories

“He had neither family nor tribe to be proud of, except for Neil Armstrong, who set foot on the Moon the day he was born.”

Luciana de Luca (Tr. Kit Maude) 8/5/25 Luciana de Luca (Tr. Kit Maude) 8/5/25

Hernando

“Said quietly, the name lingers in your mouth like a candy-sized stone, impossible to swallow or spit out.”

Eliana Alves Cruz (Tr. Benjamin Brooks) 8/5/25 Eliana Alves Cruz (Tr. Benjamin Brooks) 8/5/25

Solitaria

“I entered that bathroom a romantic teen and left a tormented woman.”

Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/5/25 Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/5/25

The Melody

“Now she ate and drank, but didn’t know who she was. A whole eighty years of life forgotten.”

Yau Ching (Tr. Chenxin Jiang) 7/31/25 Yau Ching (Tr. Chenxin Jiang) 7/31/25

Highway

“A steady hand on the wheel takes an unblinking courage.”

Suhbat Aflatuni (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 7/15/25 Suhbat Aflatuni (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 7/15/25

My Name is Sun

“When you live long enough inside a scientific and technological marvel you start to get used to it.”

Selma Asotić 7/8/25 Selma Asotić 7/8/25

Two Poems From Bosnia

“Write me when you can. / Skip the hellos.”

Valérie Mréjen (Tr. Katie Assef) 6/17/25 Valérie Mréjen (Tr. Katie Assef) 6/17/25

“Hello Sweetheart”

“I’m happy that you called, ah, you see, it’s nice when you remember.”

Marzio Mian (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 6/12/25 Marzio Mian (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 6/12/25

The Trump Family’s Island of Dreams

A new resort on the remote Albanian island of Sazan promises “high-end luxury.”

Allan de Abreu (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 6/3/25 Allan de Abreu (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 6/3/25

Brazil’s Trafficked Babies

Why is it so easy to take an infant out of the country?

Anna Juul (Tr. Caroline Waight) 5/27/25 Anna Juul (Tr. Caroline Waight) 5/27/25

LinkedIn Is So Embarrassing

“Who doesn’t like being praised? It happens so rarely as an adult.”

Irene Solà (Tr. Mara Faye Lethem) 5/13/25 Irene Solà (Tr. Mara Faye Lethem) 5/13/25

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

“She wanted to watch as Bernadeta was denied divine grace and salvation for having had so many dealings with the devil.”

Rasha Alqasim (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 5/6/25 Rasha Alqasim (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 5/6/25

Things Unrelated to Loneliness

“All these spoons, / For who?”

Mohamed Kheir (Tr. Robin Moger) 4/24/25 Mohamed Kheir (Tr. Robin Moger) 4/24/25

Sleep Phase

“Even as he climbed, he knew what he would see and refused to believe it until there it was before him.”

Karim Kattan (Tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman) 4/15/25 Karim Kattan (Tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman) 4/15/25

Salt Air

“He studied the sea, as if sizing up an enemy.”

Julia Amberger, Nanni Fontana, Marzio Mian, & Nicola Scevola (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 4/3/25 Julia Amberger, Nanni Fontana, Marzio Mian, & Nicola Scevola (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 4/3/25

Big Fish

The luxury tuna industry is killing the Mediterranean.

Dalia Taha (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 4/3/25 Dalia Taha (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 4/3/25

Three Poems

“A story of two truths: light / and shadows.”