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Named a “fall 2020 must-read” and one of the “best books of fall 2020” by Time, Vulture, The Boston Globe, Wired, Cosmopolitan, and more. Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerfu... -
Folding and refolding origami frogs, extracting the symmetrical veins from leaves, retreating to an imaginary world in his closet: after Teresa walked out the door one July afternoon in 1994, her son... -
Forgetting. It is one of the great themes of literature, Renzi said as he began his class. To be forgotten; the tragedy of the abandoned lover who knows he is lost to the memory of the one he loves. A... -
“I found her there this morning, paws up,” said Doña Elodia pointing to the spot on the beach where trash brought in or churned up by the sea collected: branches, plastic bags, bottles. “Poisoned?” “I... -
The Wind Traveler showcases the mesmerizing storytelling of Alonso Cueto at the top of his career. At the heart of his latest work is a seemingly ordinary man named Ángel, who sells kitchenware... -
The initial idea of this book, according to the author—who is not me, I’m just her pet and her instrument of inspiration—was to write fifteen stories, all in the first person so the reader would feel... -
Lucía and Pablo are Colombian immigrants who’ve built their lives together in the US yet maintain conflicting attitudes toward their homeland and the extent to which it defines their identity. After u... -
A newspaper is spotted several times along the history of literature, but no one has ever seen it. If that newspaper ever existed, then somewhere, at least in some obscure and never-visited archive, s... -
Gabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career by infiltrating Peru’s most dangerous prison, going all in at swingers clubs, inge... -
Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel’s stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for thei... -
“I don’t expect anyone to believe me,” warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he’s kidnapped in a books... -
The Most Fragile Objects, Chimal’s first novel published in translation, tells three stories (maybe two, or just one) of people living secret lives in early 21st-century Mexico. They seem to... -
This multilingual novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out. Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Fran... -
Mara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. -
I woke up late, the sound of rain such a blessing, so merciful this oppressive summer; I had slept well thanks to the drop in temperature, and I almost could have kept sleeping . . . -
Privilege. He could feel the word in his mouth, as it made the same movements it would make to taste and swallow a spoonful of frosting. -
I Offer My Heart as a Target/Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana, de Johanny Vázquez Paz, presenta a la nueva ganadora del Premio Paz de Poesía, otorgado por el National Poetry Series, y también... -
Sergio Chejfec's The Incompletes, translated by Heather Cleary, is forthcoming from Open Letter Books. We are proud to feature an exclusive preview of the novel in Latin American Literatu... -
In Silvina Ocampo's The Promise, a dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity. This essential voice from one of the gr... -
Like rearranging the furniture of one’s home,searching for some peace,that’s how I prepare to burn the bridgesthat uphold everything I knew as manly. -
Once again I saw the forest of elder trees, the little rivers and their nearly nameless inhabitants: the spoons of water, the pans of water and the mushrooms. -
She is a creature of great imagination. I might say this is her sole remaining quality. She is a despoiled, molted castaway but by this power she still breaks life between her fingers. -
The following poems by Gabriela Cantú Westendarp appear in Dangerous Matter, translated into English by Lawrence Schimel, available in Fall 2018 from Literal Publishing and UANL. -
Abrió los párpados y le entraron todas las sombras del día que se quebraba. Eran manchas voluminosas –“La opacidad es el espíritu de los objetos”, decía su psicoanalista– que le permitieron adivinar u... -
Angrily, but with great care, Mario placed two oars in the boat and went to his father’s house to fetch the gas cans. Javier had already brought the coolers full of ice and the jugs of water, and by n...
