The March and spring issues of several online-publications are now available, including several with a lot of review-coverage: Words without Borders - this month: 'Correspondences in the Air: International Poetry' Open Le...

As the excellent Web magazine Words Without Borders makes plain in its February 2010 issue, there's still a bounty of fine graphic work being done in other languages, work that most American readers have no idea about.

The new Words Without Borders blog has shot out of the box with their ongoing Perec coverage. The latest piece is an excellent, lengthy interview between Martin Riker of the Dalkey Archive Press and Perec-scholar Warren Motte. Here’...

Perec’s Unfinished BooksEven wonder what Georges Perec would have written if he hadn’t died of cancer at 45? At Words Without Borders Laird Hunt gives some idea of literature’s loss: In December 1976 Georges Perec, who wrote, both ...

I’ve been posting a couple of items at Dispatches, our blog at Words Without Borders on Javier Marías and I’ve just began a new series called “Classics in Translation” there, beginning this week with Georges Perec. As part of our...

Words Without Borders has undergone a handsome redesign. The January issue is devoted to short-short fiction.

Words Without BordersI’m here. The last few months I’ve been working hard on redesigning and rebuilding the Words Without Borders Website. It was a particularly big job because we had to migrate over thousands of entries from the ol...

       Yet another literary website undergoes a major makeover, as Words without Borders has a completely new look. A bit of clicking around suggests it's become considerably more user-friendly.        The January issue, Long Stor...

Words Without Borders covers the the Madmen, Exiles, and Savage Detectives: Latin American Poetry panel: I was late to the Madmen, Exiles, and Savage Detectives: Latin American Poetry panel at the Philoctetes Center this Tuesday. I ...

       At Conversational Reading, Russell Valentino is the latest to take issue with Liesl Schillinger's pretty much now infamous article, American Literature: Words Without Borders, in Literary Parochialism, and Proud of It.     ...

I was at “Live at NYPL” last week to see Javier Marías speak (about which I’ll be posting soon at Words Without Borders) and before the show began, the program’s “Artist in Residence,” Flash Rosenberg, introduced herself and her wor...

The December issue of Words Without Borders is now online. I'm partial to this piece by the author many consider the greatest Brazilian to ever pick up a pen, Machado de Assis. For more on Machado, be sure to stop by The Quarterly C...

       Among the December issues now available online are those of Words without Borders -- an entertaining one on the theme of International Science Fiction -- and Open Letters....

       It's the twentieth anniversary of the 'fall' of the Berlin Wall, and the venerable institutions, Words without Borders and Open Letter have brought out an anthology to celebrate the event, The Wall in My Head: Words and Image...

Nice to see a review of Jean Philippe Toussaint's Running Away at Words Without Borders, although the general cold-shouldering of this author continues to baffle me (well, not really . . .): This brief summary leaves out the feeling...

       Among the November issues of online periodicals available now are Words without Borders -- on: Twenty Years After: Germany Now and Then -- and Open Letters....

At Words Without Borders, Geoff Wisner discusses A Chain of Voices by André Brink, whom Geoff calls "one of South Africa's leading Afrikaans-language writers." In part, he writes: His method — along with some of his rhetorical flour...

This year’s National Book Award nominations suggest that the American idea not only translates, it disregards national boundaries.

Words Without Borders will excerpt Herta Müller’s new novel. Related: Nobel as validation of the work of small presses. (Via.)

       The September issue of Words without Borders is now available; it's devoted to 'Walking the World'.