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• Appointment in K City
• Student essay, Mexico City (Spanish)
• Piloting WWB Campus in New York City
• What's the Sound of a City on the Brink?
• Hello?
• Sharing
• The Apartment in Bab el-Louk
• Memories of Chernobyl
• China - Love Stories
• Chapatas and McDonald’s: International Writing about Food
• "A lot more connected, a lot less hopeless": Innovative class helps deportees in Mexico
• Gangs, Deportation, and Something of a Second Chance
• 11 Poems and Stories of Global Cities
• Hunger
• Join Us for "Noodling in New York," Monday, May 18th, 1 pm Eastern
• TODAY at 5 pm ET, #TeaGlobally With Manga Translator Jocelyne Allen
• Just Published: Liberty, Hope, and Climate Change
• About
• My Madre, Pure as Cumulous Clouds
• Mexico
• Egypt
• A Failed Journey
• Marías Mazahuas
• Sleepless Homeland
• For Educators
• Things Elude Me
• The Story of a Homosexual: An Interview with Ni Dongxue
• It’s a Chick, Not a Dog
• This Country Must Break Apart
• Death Fugue
• The Mystery of the Parakeet, the Rooster, and the Nanny Goat
• Poem to the Tune "Pure Peace"
• Violence and Drug-Trafficking in Mexico
• Love’s Labor
• The Veiler of All Deeds
• An Interview with Wu Wenjian
• The Old Cicada
• Timid as a Mouse
• An Interview with Yan Lianke
• Prison Memoirs
• Proud Beggars
• Dreams and Memories of a Common Man
• The Last of the Bunch
• Mexico - Leaving Home
• International Literature and the Common Core Standards
• Two or Three Things from the Past: Sample Lesson Plan
• The Kiso Wayfarer
• Compos Mentis
• The Trapped Boy
• Walking the Keihin Factory Belt with Stuart Dybek
• The Farside
• The Last Picture Show
• Sentimental Education
• Metamorphosis
• When My Wife Was A Shiitake
• Face
• Narcissus
• Do Not Tremble
• Tetsu of the Yamanote Line
• New Introduction to the Mexico Unit!
• Using WWB in the Classroom: Teachers' Ideas
• May 21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
• 10 International Stories in the First Person: True, fictional, graphic, and poetic
• Celebrating the Season with International Ghost Stories
• Literature for Middle School Readers
• The Wondrous Deer of the Eternal Hunt
• Russia
• 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
• International Literature to Inspire Student Filmmakers
• The Golem in the Mirror
• None of Your Business
• My Story of Chess
• Global Icebreakers: International Literature to Spark Conversations
• Arm Wrestling in Chebachinsk
• Soul, you are a street
• On the Moscow Metro and Being Gay
• An Uncoincidence, A Noncoincidence
• Unity of Form
• Slaves of Moscow
• Fragments from the Dollmaker's Life
• In the magazine: Amina Saïd's Border-Defying Poetry
• In the Magazine: Thunder grandmas
• Share Your Expertise at the NBF's "Reading Without Boundaries" Conference
• Join our free Russian lit webinar
• A Kind Of New Alchemy: An Interview With Translator Peter Golub
• In the Magazine: Mortada Gzar's "While He Was Sitting There"
• A Second Summer of Second Chances: Update on Program for Deportees in Mexico
• We're looking for a NYC-based Outreach Coordinator
• Iran
• Educators' Voices: Reading Night in Trump-era Chicago
• Deadline Extended: NYC-Based Outreach Coordinator
• Grants for Educators Promoting Empathy, Students Learning Languages, and More
• Just Published: Empty Chairs in Vietnam and Mexico
• Ney Boulevard
• A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee
• 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
• Galileo
• Rahman's Story
• Green Sour Orange
• Like a Body Turned Inside Out
• New from Mozambique: The Poetry of Punctuation, and More
• Global Literature: Live in New York
• How to be a Woman in Tehran
• A Year Among the Boat People, My People
• Educators' Voices: Bringing Global Graphic Fiction to English Language Learners
• The Cleric and I
• In NYC? Consider This Workshop
• The Fish
• For the Love of the Books
• Korea
• Injeolmi Rice Cakes
• Ascending Scales
• Tree of Kisses
• The Suit
• Dori and Jina
• I'll Be Right There
• 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
• 7 Mangas to Read Next & More Q&A with Jocelyne Allen
• 20 Stories, Films, & Essays on Identity & Race
• From Russia and Mexico, 5 Stories and Poems at the Intersection of Race and Class
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• "Serpent": A Thought-Provoking Indigenous Poem
• Get Ready for National Day on Writing with 3 Global Model Texts
• The Poem
• Start a Global Journey Here
• How to be a Woman in Tehran: Sample Lesson Plan
• 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!
• From China to Chicago: Bilingual Author Talk with Wenguang Huang
• 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
• What's a "Carnival Life"?
• "We just are who we are": A Puerto Rican story of identity, plus an author video!
• 4 Global Stories of Book Bans, Censorship, and Freedom
• "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
• A Lens on Japan
• Cows and Pockets: 10 Chinese Idioms for AAPI Heritage Month
• 4 Complicated Fathers for Father's Day
• 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
• Holidays! Food! Solitude?
• 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
• "None of Your Business" on Mango Street: Linking Global Women's Voices
• Amina Saïd's Border-Defying Poetry
• "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
• 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”
• A “Kriol Soldier” Celebrates Afro-Caribbean Heritage
• 7 International Food Stories for Thanksgiving
• Looking at Translation with a Dominican “Marilyn Monroe”
• 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
• Why Write? In Haiti, an Author Makes Sense of Disaster
• From Haiti, a Powerful Story of Disaster and Connection
• Join Us for 2 Free Events with Author Marco Avilés on June 1st & 12th!
• After Migration, the Search for Roots
• Join WWB and Re-Imagining Migration for our September 12th Webinar!
• New Student Writing: "No Longer La Reina de la Casa"
• Off-Campus: Talking Asian Kid Lit with Expert Nancy Hope
• Helping Students Deal with Disasters