A conversation with Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan about her latest novel, Lebanon, memory, patriarchy, migration – and why literature is stronger than a manifesto

What is the Literary Translators Division? The Literary Translators Division, or LTD, is a new division of the National Writers Union, formed to organize for better working conditions for literary tra...

By the wine-press house, the road turns offto the right, I see low village roofs through the mountains, on roads burnished blue,I’m a stranger here, for I intrude no one in sight, only acacias, vin…

Weird girl lit is having a moment. From TikTok videos to front tables at indie bookshops and in countless newsletters, a group of seemingly ubiquitous novels are being grouped together like ingredi…

From Transit Books | On the Other Side Is March by Sólrún Michelson, translated from the Faroese by Marita Thomsen | Fiction | 121 pages | ISBN 9798893380491 | US$18.95 What the publisher says: “A lyr...

When the genocide in Gaza began in 2023, I remember seeing a repeated commentary on social media: every time a queer-presenting person posted about Israeli war crimes, a troll would pop up to tell …

Katharine Halls' translation of Shady Lewis's On the Greenwich Line won this year's James Tait Black Prize in the fiction category.

A translator ponders cultural parallels and the many, often-contradictory, dimensions of an anthology written by and about Jordanian women.

Read a Q&A with the author to explore the creative process behind the novel, and take a closer look at the ideas, decisions, and moments that shaped it.

Addie Leak talks with Tugrul Mende about the translation process, literary awards, and two very different translations processes: translating one book through a riot of multilingual voicenotes and …

Addie Leak talks with Tugrul Mende about the translation process, literary awards, and two very different translations processes: translating one book through a riot of multilingual voicenotes and another by an author who was inaccessible, in an Israeli prison.

Addie Leak talks with Tugrul Mende about the translation process, literary awards, and two very different translations processes: translating one book through a riot of multilingual voicenotes and …

These books in translation feature women transforming their lives and societies

A look back at March 2026 in Arabic literature and translation.

Areej Gamal's Sawiris-winning novel Mariam, It's Arwa appeared at the end of last month in Addie Leak's translation. The titular Arwa and Mariam meet near Cairo University during the 2011 Egyptian uprising, and the encounter changes them both.

"A Mask the Color of the Sky" practices what it clearly laid out: using literature to engage obsessively with colonial details, to challenge them, and to insist on a Palestinian narrative.

Can Xue is an award-winning writer from China often touted as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Book Club: We speak to Bassem Khandaqji on identity, erasure, and the radical power of imagination behind ’A Mask, the Colour of the Sky’

Nur Mahdi al-Shahdi wasn’t born just once, but several times throughout the years of his life in the alleys. The first was on April 1, 1991, when he lived and his mother Noura died, along with her …

Palestinian poet, novelist and commentator Bassem Khandaqji wrote his latest novel, A Mask the Color of the Sky while in an Israeli prison. Any prisoner, anywhere, who manages to write a novel whil…

“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …