WWB's favorite books
This time of the year the Words Without Borders staff sits around the Words Without Borders fireplace with our mugs of hot toddy, chatting about the books we’ve been reading. Into the wee hours on one such night, Joshua said, “Hey, why don’t we mention some of our favorites from the year on the blog?” And so here ...
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Dec 08 Issue of Words Without Borders
The new issue of Words Without Borders is now online, and is entitled “The Home Front”: This month we’re reporting on the war at home, with international dispatches on domestic conflicts. Here homeland security is both threatened and maintained, as couples tie the knot but long to cut the cord, and double ...
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September Issue of Words Without Borders
The new issue of Words Without Borders is now available online, and this month’s theme is “Reversals”: We’re prolonging summer with another month of flip-flops, as international writers contemplate the reversals of various fortunes. On the air in Sarajevo and under the radar in São Paulo, in chilly ...
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August Issue of Words Without Borders
Another new issue that’s now available is the August version of Words Without Borders, which is dedicated to “Writings on Psychiatry.” Ever since Freud, analysts have decamped in August, leaving their patients to fend for themselves till September. To compensate for this absence, we prescribe a healthy ...
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July Issue of Words Without Borders
The new issue of Words Without Borders is now online: In the spirit of Independence Day and Bastille Day, we salute freedom fighters of all stripes with writing about revolution. In the pulsing heat of Che’s Havana and the gray chill of Lenin’s Moscow, on ravaged battlefields and blasted domestic fronts, writers ...
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Words Without Borders Job Opening
We usually don’t post things like this, but this is a fantastic opportunity that I’m sure some 3P readers will be interested in: Literary Website Editor Words Without Borders, publisher of international modern literature in translation on the Internet, seeks a web-wise editor with managerial abilities ...
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Words Without Borders Book Club: The Assistant by Robert Walser
A few weeks back, I mentioned the Reading the World/Words Without Borders Book Club featuring Robert Walser’s The Assistant. At the time the discussion was just getting underway, and all that was available online was Sam Jones’s excellent introduction and Susan Bernofsky’s translator’s afterword to the ...
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