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• The Story of a Homosexual: An Interview with Ni Dongxue
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• Poem to the Tune "Pure Peace"
• Translator's Note from Jeffrey Yang
• Memories of Chernobyl
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• Violence and Drug-Trafficking in Mexico
• Love’s Labor
• The Veiler of All Deeds
• An Interview with Wu Wenjian
• Appointment in K City
• The Old Cicada
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• Timid as a Mouse
• An Interview with Yan Lianke
• Prison Memoirs
• Sometimes Wisdom Possesses Me
• Proud Beggars
• Amina
• Dreams and Memories of a Common Man
• We interview Wenguang Huang!
• The Last of the Bunch
• The Egyptian Revolution Won’t be Fooled
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• China - Love Stories
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• Mexico - Mothers
• Mexico - Leaving Home
• Mexico - Drug Wars
• Egypt - Mothers
• Egypt - Revolution
• Egypt - Leaving Home
• Egypt - Friendship
• Great Books?
• Why do we teach world literature?
• Translators David Young and Jiann I. Lin on Du Mu
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• International Literature and the Common Core Standards
• Two or Three Things from the Past: Sample Lesson Plan
• Spirit Summoning, Part I
• The Kiso Wayfarer
• Compos Mentis
• The Hole in the Garden, Part I
• Reunion
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• Where Have All the Sundays Gone?
• Director's Notes on "Sway"
• The Trapped Boy
• Walking the Keihin Factory Belt with Stuart Dybek
• Riverwilt
• The Memory
• Stance Dots
• The Farside
• The Last Picture Show
• Sentimental Education
• A Drifting Life
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• When My Wife Was A Shiitake
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• Japan - Ghosts, Dreams, and Visions
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• New Words Without Borders Campus Video!
• What's in A Name: Translation and Politics
• Translating "The Last of the Bunch"
• Translation Tuesday! Translation Activity for the Classroom
• New Introduction to the Mexico Unit!
• Helping Students Become Global Citizens
• Pilot WWB Campus this spring!
• Translation Tuesday! A Free Online List of Translated Arabic Literature for Young Readers
• “What if education encouraged us to care for our world?”
• Using WWB in the Classroom: Teachers' Ideas
• Euphoria is a Kind of Drug: A Conversation with Translator Humphrey Davies
• New Unit: Literature from Japan!
• A Sentimental Education: Selected Passages—Formative Experiences
• Celebrating National Poetry Month with @wwborders!
• News: Literacy Today's 30 Under 30!
• May 21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
• May: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
• Grant Opportunity: The United States-Japan Foundation’s Pre-College Education Programs
• Help WWB Campus Inspire More Young Readers: #InspireGlobalReaders
• Thank you! And another way to reach us
• Chapatas and McDonald’s: International Writing about Food
• 7 Complex Female Characters in International Literature
• 10 International Stories in the First Person: True, fictional, graphic, and poetic
• A Joyous Love Poem to Celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
• Connecting with Classrooms Around the World: Resources for Virtual Exchanges, Part II (updated)
• Celebrating the Season with International Ghost Stories
• Using WWB Campus as a Tool for Intercultural Learning
• Literature for Middle School Readers
• The Wondrous Deer of the Eternal Hunt
• Russia
• Russia - Love Stories
• "To kiss a forehead is to erase worry."
• Hello?
• Teaching About Translation: Tools and Resources
• Original-language version of "to kiss a forehead is to erase worry."
• Grants and Awards Bulletin: Winter 2017
• In the Magazine: Graphic Literature!
• Petroleum Venus
• New Literature: Love Stories from Russia
• Pears from Gudauty
• Russia - Leaving Home
• A Dream in Polar Fog
• The Bed
• The Only True Guide to Russia: Hidden Secrets Revealed
• The Stone Guest
• Leaving Home: New Russian Literature
• The Egyptian Tomb
• The Gringo Champion
• Using World Literature to Help Students Find Purpose
• International Literature to Inspire Student Filmmakers
• The Guest: Sample Lesson Plan
• A Dream in Polar Fog: Sample Lesson Plan
• Sleepless Homeland: Sample Lesson Plan
• The Trapped Boy: Sample Lesson Plan
• Out of the Pilot Phase and into the World!
• In the Magazine: The Queer Issue!
• Wrap up the school year with global literature
• Milgrom
• The Golem in the Mirror
• Enter our anthology raffle before July 7
• Russia - Transformation
• None of Your Business
• New “Transformations”-themed Russian Literature!
• We Have a Winner!
• My Story of Chess
• Get Kids Reading Great Global Literature
• Text for "Two Million People in the Square"
• Global Icebreakers: International Literature to Spark Conversations
• Arm Wrestling in Chebachinsk
• New Writing from Colombia
• Soul, you are a street
• "Flipping" World Literature: Four Texts to Try
• Russia - Money and Possessions
• On the Moscow Metro and Being Gay
• An Uncoincidence, A Noncoincidence
• Unity of Form
• Slaves of Moscow
• Fragments from the Dollmaker's Life
• Grandmother's Little Hut
• In the Magazine: Love and Friendship in Turkey
• The Fight for Civil Rights, Continued: "I Am Not Your Cholo"
• "A lot more connected, a lot less hopeless": Innovative class helps deportees in Mexico
• Gangs, Deportation, and Something of a Second Chance
• Student essay, Mexico City (Spanish)
• In the magazine: Amina Saïd's Border-Defying Poetry
• Helping All Students Raise Their Voices in the New Year
• In the Magazine: Thunder grandmas
• Awards for Teachers and Students
• Love and Anti-Love Stories
• In the Magazine: Cat-girl in a Scandinavian Dystopia (and more!)
• Share Your Expertise at the NBF's "Reading Without Boundaries" Conference
• Celebrate International Women's Day with International Literature by Women
• In the Magazine: A Trial and a Tongue
• Join our free Russian lit webinar
• "You are Everyone and You are You:" International Children's Literature
• Confronting the Past: Russian literature webinar now available on demand
• In the Magazine: "Angry Young Woman" Sveta Grigorjeva
• WWB Honored for Efforts to Inspire Student Readers
• In the Magazine: Writing by Instinct
• "It has to feel natural and spontaneous": an interview with translator Jesse Irwin
• Comics and Comix in Egypt: An Interview on Teaching With Arabic Literature
• A Kind Of New Alchemy: An Interview With Translator Peter Golub
• In the Magazine: Mortada Gzar's "While He Was Sitting There"
• Words without Borders Wins Whiting Magazine Prize!
• Meet Our New Intern: Mandana Naviafar
• "World Literature is Personal:" A Writing Professor's Perspective
• A Second Summer of Second Chances: Update on Program for Deportees in Mexico
• In the Magazine: "Open Hands"
• In the Magazine: Japanese-Georgian Poems That Caused an Internet Sensation
• 11 Poems and Stories of Global Cities
• We're looking for a NYC-based Outreach Coordinator
• Iran
• Educators' Voices: Reading Night in Trump-era Chicago
• Deadline Extended: NYC-Based Outreach Coordinator
• WWB Partners with Poets.org to Bring Eye-Opening Work to New Readers!
• Dalit Identity and the Ivy League
• Iran - Leaving Home
• Hunger
• 10 Global Tales of the Uncanny
• Grants for Educators Promoting Empathy, Students Learning Languages, and More
• Just Published: Empty Chairs in Vietnam and Mexico
• Ney Boulevard
• Piloting WWB Campus in New York City
• A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee
• Fulbright Fellowships for Globally-Minded Educators
• Just Published: Whose Man?
• For the Holidays: Global Children's Books
• A Muslim Christmas: Transforming Pain into Empathy
• Finding Authentic Asian Children's Literature (from Asia)
• NEA Grants: Travel and Study for Global Educators
• Inspire Students with a Writing Competition from Korea
• The Neighbor
• I Pity the Garden
• Encounter
• An Iranian Metamorphosis
• Love is International: Three Stories and a Poem
• New Graphic Literature from Korea, Brazil, and Elsewhere
• Zombies and Love in the New Millennium: Novels from China
• Galileo
• Rahman's Story
• A Snake on Social Media: New Literature from Iran
• Join us March 7th for a Global Lit Twitter Chat
• Green Sour Orange
• Like a Body Turned Inside Out
• Elegy
• 11 Women's Stories for International Women's Day
• Islam and Love: New Writing from Sweden
• Honors and Awards Round-Up
• Out of Our Comfort Zone: Global Lit on Twitter
• New from Mozambique: The Poetry of Punctuation, and More
• Global Literature: Live in New York
• What's it like to translate children's books?
• How to be a Woman in Tehran
• Just Published: Lives of Muslim Girls and Women
• Teach in New York? Consider the Cullman Center's Summer Institute
• Original-Language Texts in Spanish and Mandarin
• Hawaii and Headlines: Opportunities for Teachers and Students
• 6 Great Resources for Teaching About the U.S.-Mexico Border
• A Year Among the Boat People, My People
• Congratulations to Jokha Alharthi and Marilyn Booth on this year's Man Booker Prize!
• Educators' Voices: Bringing Global Graphic Fiction to English Language Learners
• 4 Powerful Ways to Commemorate June 4th, the Tiananmen Square Massacre
• 9 Classroom-ready Stories of LGBTQ+ Lives Around the World
• 38 Great, Yet Untranslatable Words
• Educators' Voices: Jenny McPhee on Teaching Translation
• Teju Cole on the Meaning of Translation
• Know any young filmmakers or journalists?
• Iran - Transformation
• Celebrate Peruvian Independence Day with great writing from Peru!
• Just Published: Post-Apocalyptic Wales, Uyghur Poems, and More
• 5 Great Poems and Stories from Indigenous Authors
• Egyptian Literature, Now with Audio!
• 9 Great Personal Essays for Fall
• 2 New Exchange Opportunities for Students
• "Cut the Bull!" with a Media Literacy Course and Global Readings
• The Cleric and I
• In the NYC area? Come to our free PD!
• New Audio: Muzaffar and Bananas and More
• East Central Europe in Translation: New Literature and Reportage
• New "Teacher as Researcher" grants from the ILA
• New from the Philippines: Film, Identity, and Representation
• In NYC? Consider This Workshop
• Teaching Uyghur Poetry: Updated with breaking news
• Thankful for Globally-Minded Students and Teachers
• Iran - War Stories
• Educators' Voices: Teaching the Global "YouTube Generation"
• January 9th, Meet Fellow Global Educators . . .
• Growing up Basque: Meet Kirmen Uribe
• In New York? Deepen Reading and Analysis Through Art and Design
• Making Translation Visible
• New Poems that Go "Beyond the Headlines" in Rojava
• Iran - Love Stories
• The Fish
• Join our Spring Cohort of Global Educators!
• Survey Links for 2020 Pilots
• Connection
• Global Graphic Lit to Fire Up Your Students This Winter
• For the Love of the Books
• Got Talented Student Writers? Deadline extended to 04/01!
• "I Spat Out This Poem": New Women's Writing from Pakistan
• Korea
• Korea - Food
• Wizard Bakery
• Injeolmi Rice Cakes
• The Vegetarian
• Roaming the World Without Leaving Home: New Global Stories to Read Now
• Ascending Scales
• Tree of Kisses
• The Suit
• Staying Locally? Lunch Globally with Re-imagining Migration and Words Without Borders!
• Asian American Literature: Reading List
• Growing Up Asian, Bullying, and a Park Bench
• Links from #LunchGlobally
• Dori and Jina
• I'll Be Right There
• The Cupboard with Strawberry Jam
• Join us on "The Park Bench": Monday the 20th, 1 pm EST
• Educators' Voices: Ann Neary on Creating Community during School Closures
• Links from #LunchGlobally 2
• Genesis
• Earning My Keep
• Grass
• Tell Me Where to Go
• A Meal of Solitude for a Restless Heart
• Join us Monday, May 4th, for a Virtual Lunch with Author and Translator Salar Abdoh
• Q&A with Salar Abdoh and Links from #LunchGlobally 3
• Garden of My Childhood
• Join Us for "Noodling in New York," Monday, May 18th, 1 pm Eastern
• TODAY at 5 pm ET, #TeaGlobally With Manga Translator Jocelyne Allen
• 7 Mangas to Read Next & More Q&A with Jocelyne Allen
• Join Us Wednesday: Writing About Immigration & Race with Marco Avilés
• "My Man": A Powerful Performance-Poem on Race and Identity, with Video
• 5 Global Readings on Racism
• 20 Stories, Films, & Essays on Identity & Race
• "I'm Not That Strange": Graphic Fiction and More from WWB's 11th Annual Queer Issue
• Quechua-Peruvian Journalist Marco Avilés on Racism, Bilingualism and More
• Navigating a Highly Visual World: The Importance of Helping Students Analyze Global Graphic Fiction
• Selected Passages from "A Meal of Solitude . . ." (For Teaching Idea #1)
• UPDATED: 9 Virtual Exchanges to Take Your Classroom Global
• From Russia and Mexico, 5 Stories and Poems at the Intersection of Race and Class
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• Nucksal's "Earning My Keep" in Translation
• "Serpent": A Thought-Provoking Indigenous Poem
• Serpent: Annotated Resource List
• Serpent: Scholarly Resource List
• 6 Quick Ways to Get Started with Global Children’s Literature
• Why Teach Translation?
• Get Ready for National Day on Writing with 3 Global Model Texts
• Korea - Leaving Home
• Join Us for #TeaGlobally THIS Thursday the 29th @ 5 pm EDT: Empowering Students in the Covid Era
• Map of "Comfort Stations"
• Teaching Beyond Melancholy, Part 1: The Clichés of Reading in Translation
• An Iranian Rap Reminding Americans to Vote
• Just Published: Liberty, Hope, and Climate Change
• Iran - Memories
• 6 Tales of Magic in Hard Times
• The Poem
• "I speak to . . .": Student Poems on Solitude and Connection
• Start a Global Journey Here
• "The Blackness That Defines a Black Man in the Eyes of Someone Who is Not Black"
• Korea - Love Stories
• How to be a Woman in Tehran: Sample Lesson Plan
• ​"If we are to have peace on earth . . . "
• Writing About Love and Its Opposite
• Join us in the "Wizard Bakery:" Wednesday, Feb. 3rd, 5 pm ET
• Graphic fiction about growing up mixed-race in South Africa
• 9 Global Women's Stories for Women's History Month
• Read Iran with us this spring
• Missed our "Wizard Bakery" event? Video and resources here!
• Selected Passages from "Dori and Jina" (For Teaching Idea #2)
• From China to Chicago: Bilingual Author Talk with Wenguang Huang
• Telling Family Stories: Free Writing Workshop with Wenguang Huang, TODAY at 11 am ET
• Cut from a Different Cloth: Reading and Teaching Lu Min’s “Scissors, Shining”
• Korea - Fathers
• "Seeing" Translation
• #LunchGlobally with Groundbreaking Iranian Writers, this Wednesday @ 1 pm ET
• Young Men on the Move: 2 Stories of Migration, Race, and Class
• Missed #LunchGlobally with Groundbreaking Iranian Writers? Here's the video!
• "Learn until you're old:" 10 Chinese Idioms for AAPI Heritage Month
• UNTEACH: A Virtual Conference about Language Discrimination in Education
• Reading Out of the Closet: New Queer Voices from Korea
• 5 International Readings on Racism and Stereotypes
• Cool Down with "A Dream in Polar Fog"
• We’re Hiring: Education Fellow
• “The Wellspring That Relieves My Thirst”: South Korean Author Kim Bi on Writing Queer Literature
• Food in Fiction: A Lesson Plan Based on Koo Byung-Mo's "Wizard Bakery"
• Voices from Inside Afghanistan
• What's a "Carnival Life"?
• Growing Up & Coming Out: 13 Global Stories
• Resilience in Puerto Rico: A great story and a chance to meet the author
• "We just are who we are": A Puerto Rican story of identity, plus an author video!
• Nobel Prize–Winning Fiction for Tanzanian Independence Day
• "I Affirm the Soul in Each Person": Hip-Hop Poetry from South Africa
• From South Africa, Affirmation and a Call to Action
• In Wales, a "Blue Book" helps a mother and son cope with an apocalypse
• A (Very) Modern Cinderella Story, from Cuba
• 6 Global Parties
• Worlds Collide in a Haitian Chance Encounter
• A Dominican "Self-Portrait" to Inspire Students' Self-Reflections
• 4 Global Stories of Book Bans, Censorship, and Freedom
• 4 Voices from the Diaspora
• Now Launching: 15 Stories and Poems from Today's Korea
• Cuban Sci-fi with a Recipe for Love
• "Letter to Ukraine"
• 7 Groundbreaking Global Women Writers for Women's History Month
• "We Have to Try to Reverse This": Students' Poems for Ukraine
• "I, too, want to return the punch": 9 Inspiring Quotes by International Women Writers
• 2 Free Virtual Writing Workshops with Guatemalan Author Rodrigo Fuentes, April 20th & 27th @ 11 AM ET
• 5 Relevant Poems to Spark Classroom Conversations
• Shining, Rusty: Students' Multilingual Poems to the Statue of Liberty
• A Lens on Japan
• Cows and Pockets: 10 Chinese Idioms for AAPI Heritage Month
• 9 Stories for Pride Month
• 4 Complicated Fathers for Father's Day
• This Juneteenth, Four Voices from the Diaspora
• Teach for the NYC DOE? Join us for a free, credit-awarding summer seminar!
• Resources on Contemporary Guatemala
• Horses and Roses: A Central American Author Inspires Brooklyn Students
• 3 Portals to International Children's Literature
• New Here? Get started fast!
• 5 Great Readings for Banned Books Week
• Looking at Translation: Women's Fantasies
• "Proud to be a Woman:" Meet Caribbean Poet Suzanne Dracius
• Across the Americas for Native American Heritage Month
• Holiday shopping? 12 global children's books for history buffs
• Holidays! Food! Solitude?
• Come work with us!
• Translating a Reggaetón Poem
• A Cuban Regguetón
• "Affirm the Soul in Each Person" with South African Rap
• Join Our Community of Global Educators!
• 4 Voices from the Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latinx Communities
• Beyond Us and Them: 15 Global Stories that Build Bridges
• Ukraine One Year Later: "The Making of Tenderness" and Student Poems
• "I, too, want to return the punch": 10 Inspiring Quotes by International Women Writers
• Reading Levels
• "None of Your Business" on Mango Street: Linking Global Women's Voices
• Amina Saïd's Border-Defying Poetry
• 5 Great Poems and Stories for AAPI Heritage Month
• "Learn until you're old:" 10 Chinese Idioms for AAPI Heritage Month
• May is Haitian Heritage Month
• 2 Free Virtual Events with Puerto Rican Author Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro on June 14th & 21st
• From Cuba, a Tale of a Baseball-Playing Shape-Shifter
• 11 Stories for Pride Month
• Two Global Graphic Novels for World Refugee Day
• Our Top 6 Non-Required Summer Reads
• Celebrate Women in Translation Month with 7 Global Stories
• Applications Open for NEA Learning & Leadership Grants
• Start the School Year with a "Carnival"
• “Passionate about Challenge”: Stephanie Chiu on Teaching the Korean Story “Ascending Scales”
• "Seeing" Translation
• 4 Migration Stories for Meaningful Social Studies Learning
• A “Kriol Soldier” Celebrates Afro-Caribbean Heritage
• 7 International Food Stories for Thanksgiving
• Campus in the New York Times!
• A Cuban Love Poem Offers “Silence for You” across Two Languages
• A Haitian Creole “Poem for Children with Trouble Sleeping”
• Looking at Translation with a Dominican “Marilyn Monroe”
• “Above All, Young”: Hoyt Rogers on Translating Frank Báez
• Which K-Lit Best Describes Your Love Life?
• Looking for Answers in a Haitian Seaside Town
• You're Invited! Join WWB Campus and Re-Imagining Migration on April 4th
• Join us on March 27th for a Webinar with NYS TESOL!
• 5 Caribbean Poems for National Poetry Month
• Why Write? In Haiti, an Author Makes Sense of Disaster
• In the Magazine: Food Kid Lit!
• From Haiti, a Powerful Story of Disaster and Connection
• Apply for our Summer Train-the-Trainer Program!
• Join Us for 2 Free Events with Author Marco Avilés on June 1st & 12th!
• After Migration, the Search for Roots
• Missed our Event with Marco Avilés? Here's the Video!
• Boyhood, Bullying, and Rebellion in Cuba
• What's the Sound of a City on the Brink?
• Join WWB and Re-Imagining Migration for our September 12th Webinar!
• A Sci-Fi Allegory of Migration to Spark Classroom Discussion
• New Student Writing: "No Longer La Reina de la Casa"
• And the Nobel Prize in Literature Goes To . . . Han Kang!
• A Tour of Latin American Kid Lit in 15 Translations
• Off-Campus: Talking Asian Kid Lit with Expert Nancy Hope
• Helping Students Deal with Disasters
• Caribbean
• 10 Stories and Poems for Reading Africa Week
• Off-Campus: Bringing Diverse Lit to Young Readers with Promised Protagonists