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Contrary to the epic, totalizing, and politically engaged narratives of the Latin American Boom, the scope of the stories here is narrow, intimate, more local than ever before.

Words Without Borders Receives 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Grant New York, New York, February 4, 2021—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has just announced that it will distribute more than $25 million in support of 1,073 arts and cultural organizations nationwide. Words Without Borders is honored to be named one of the NEA’s 2021 grantees. WWB will receive an Art Works award to fund the publication of its monthly magazine, its education programs through WWB Campus, and its ...

Our Favorite International Reads of 2020 (and What We’ll Be Reading in 2021)   Editor This year, Im keeping my recommendations to the Southern Cone, perhaps out of the wistful recollection that as we face gray, blustery afternoons here in New York, warmer climes hold elsewhere. Daniel Tunnard s  Escapes(Unnamed Press), set in a world in which competitive Scrabble is a globally televised craze under the thumb of the Scrafia (yes, a Scrabble mafia), is an uproarious novel staked on the final ...