Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III (Tr. Kristine Ong Muslim) 11/19/24 Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III (Tr. Kristine Ong Muslim) 11/19/24

In Loving Memory: Soldado Tenso Conserbado (1898-1976)

“Conserbado believed that everything he wrote was God’s gift to mankind.”

Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight) 11/12/24 Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight) 11/12/24

Death in Grammar

“Oh, how I admire the capacity of the Spanish language to express uncertainty so precisely!”

Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24 Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24

Earshot

“Day after day, I kept turning up the volume of the music, but it only seemed further and further away. After a few months, it had disappeared completely.”

Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24 Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24

Gabÿ, Tree, Goose

Three poems.

Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24 Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24

After

“I ran through the school gates and jumped on my bike without looking back, five kilometers down this road more familiar than even my mother’s voice, and which was suddenly evasive, distant, like a laminated picture under a transparent film.”

Paloma De Dinechin & Nicola Zolin (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 9/5/24 Paloma De Dinechin & Nicola Zolin (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 9/5/24

The Rainforest Speaks

Scientists are recording the sounds of the Amazon in a bid to better protect it.

K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil) 8/22/24 K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil) 8/22/24

Hornets

“Hornets are trying to live too, making their nests. Humans have inside them envy and cruelty and pride and so on and hornets, well, they have a bit of poison.”

Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor) 8/22/24 Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor) 8/22/24

Flowers

“Neither the strange currents of love nor water on the verge of thirst — nothing in this world can compare to the pleasure offered by observing this flower.”

Ingvild H. Rishøi (Tr. Caroline Waight) 8/22/24 Ingvild H. Rishøi (Tr. Caroline Waight) 8/22/24

Words of Wisdom

A poem.

Xi Xi (Tr. Jennifer Feeley) 8/22/24 Xi Xi (Tr. Jennifer Feeley) 8/22/24

Butcher Ding

“I never expected that tai chi sword would become a special type of physical therapy for me.”

Oğuz Atay (Tr. Ralph Hubbell) 8/22/24 Oğuz Atay (Tr. Ralph Hubbell) 8/22/24

Man in a White Overcoat

“The coat fit him like a glove. The vendor spun him around, and the flared skirt fluttered outward.”

Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/8/24 Salomat Vafo (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 8/8/24

Telefon

“Whenever he sees the phone, he thinks about calling his mother.”

Eva Baltasar (Tr. Julia Sanches) 8/8/24 Eva Baltasar (Tr. Julia Sanches) 8/8/24

Mammoth

“It was time. I spotted him on the terrace, made my approach, took away his glass, and stubbed out his cigarette.”

Claudia Piñeiro (Tr. Frances Riddle) 8/8/24 Claudia Piñeiro (Tr. Frances Riddle) 8/8/24

Time of the Flies

“So that’s what I call myself when I’m alone, the name Charo wrote in lip liner at the end of the letters she sent to Ernesto, my husband. Excuse me, my ex-husband.”

Hafsah Nassir Mujalli (Tr. Sawad Hussain) 8/8/24 Hafsah Nassir Mujalli (Tr. Sawad Hussain) 8/8/24

محظوظ (“Lucky”)

A poem.

Claudia Peña Claros (Tr. Robin Myers) 8/8/24 Claudia Peña Claros (Tr. Robin Myers) 8/8/24

Child

“This child isn’t mine, but he won’t let me go.”

Luna Miguel (Tr. Ellen Jones) 7/30/24 Luna Miguel (Tr. Ellen Jones) 7/30/24

Hot

“Why did that pain turn out to be so pleasurable?”

Farhad Pirbal (Tr. Jiyar Homer & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse) 7/16/24 Farhad Pirbal (Tr. Jiyar Homer & Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse) 7/16/24

The Deserter

“Tomorrow I’d be sent to the front lines. Then I noticed my missing leg had sent me a letter.”

Anna Ryzhkova & Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 6/11/24 Anna Ryzhkova & Katya Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi) 6/11/24

Adopted by Russia

Hundreds of Ukrainian orphans taken from the Donbas region are now stranded in the Kremlin’s orphanage system.

Thuận (Tr. Nguyễn An Lý) 5/29/24 Thuận (Tr. Nguyễn An Lý) 5/29/24

Paris

“What can I do, I will always be, at heart, an emigrant — but what lessons have I drawn from it?”