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ISSUE

39

SEPTEMBER
2026
In our thirty-ninth issue, we feature award-winning Uruguayan author Fernanda Trías, whose novels and short stories have earned her recognition as an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature, in a cover dossier including an exclusive interview and an excerpt from Trías’s Pink Slime in translation by Heather Cleary. We also look back in time and outside the limits of Latin America with a dossier dedicated to the new volume by Braulio Fernández Biggs, Robert Southwell: Jesuita, poeta y mártir, the first book ever written in Spanish on the life and legacy of Robert Southwell, the sixteenth-century priest and poet whose impact on English literature can still be felt to this day. This issue also features a special section on twentieth-century poetry from the Southern Cone with bilingual poems by Alfonsina Storni, Delmira Agustini, and Julio Herrera y Reissig, as well as reflections from Joaquín Castillo, Carlos Granés, and Pedro Henríquez Ureña, exclusive interviews, previews of new books in translation by Horacio Quiroga, Miriam Reyes, and Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza, and fiction by Ariana Harwicz, Rafael Gumucio, and María Teresa Andruetto.
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Featured Author:

Fernanda Trías

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Working with the Hidden Story: A Conversation with Fernanda Trías on Miembro fantasma

By Juan Camilo Rincón

The two-time winner of the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara’s Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, among other prizes, invites us to peek into these everyday realities through a lens of estrangement—one with which we recognize “the mystery of the other, which is always changing.”

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Of Wounds and Absences: Fernanda Trías’s Miembro fantasma

By Luz Marina Rivas

Miembro fantasma is inhabited by characters immersed in solitude and affected by past traumas; they are the residents of an uncertain world.

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Pink Slime, translated by Heather Cleary

By Fernanda Trías

An evocative elegy for a safe, clean world, Pink Slime is buoyed by humor and its narrator’s resiliency. This vivid and unforgettable translated novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge.

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editor's note

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The Universe Is Our Birthright

By Marcelo Rioseco

Dossier: Robert Southwell in Latin America

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Defeating Silence: The Recovery of Robert Southwell

By Nicolás Bernales

The result is much more than an intellectual biography: it comes together as the recovery of a writer whose absence leads us to inquire into the mechanisms of the literary canon and the ways in which a tradition decides, over time, who remains and who disappears.

An Exemplary Life from Braulio Fernández Biggs

By Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt

Cinco poemas bilingües de Robert Southwell

By Robert Southwell

Dossier: Robert Southwell in Latin America

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Defeating Silence: The Recovery of Robert Southwell

By Nicolás Bernales

This book’s clear proof does not encompass a life; rather, it propels said life toward our own times.

An Exemplary Life from Braulio Fernández Biggs

By Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt

Southwell is too powerful an individual to be silenced. What he has to tell us is still eloquent today.

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By Robert Southwell

interviews

A Community to Survive Catastrophe: A Conversation with Andrea Chapela about Todos los fines del mundo

By Natalia Consuegra

“Time is an individual experience”: A Conversation with Juan Gómez Bárcena

By Eduardo Suárez Fernández-Miranda

“I threw myself into literary writing with tremendous irreverence”: A Conversation with Nona Fernández

By Adriana Pacheco

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Essays

Emil Cioran and Music

By Ismael Gavilán

Roberto Bolaño at 75

By Christian Jiménez Kanahuaty

Dwellers in Bewilderment: Forms of the Absurd in Antonio Di Benedetto

By Vanesa Almada Noguerón

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writing for LALT

Victimhood and Redemptive Violence

By Carlos Granés

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El afán europeizante

By Pedro Henríquez Ureña

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Una multitud a oscuras

By Joaquín Castillo

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WORLD LITERATURE FROM WLT

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Raw, Cooked, Drunk: The Visionary Reach of Everyday Words in Rumi’s Poetry

By Haleh Liza Gafori

Rumi applies the words “raw,” “cooked,” and “burned” to the human psyche and ego, marking three stations along a path of evolving consciousness, which, he insists, is open to anyone with the will for introspection and a devotion to spiritual practice.

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Andre Álvarez Mujica writes for LALT

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Luis Alberto Spinetta: Destellos de un legado

By Andrea Álvarez Mujica

Luis Alberto “el Flaco” Spinetta es el artista que une el barrio con el cosmos, la literatura con los versos de rock y la sencillez con la sofisticación en una búsqueda exigente e inconformista. Compositor, multiinstrumentista, poeta, dibujante, gran lector, autodidacta, inquieto, curioso, carismático, rebelde y escurridizo a la hora de encajar en catalogaciones; canta jugando.

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On Translation

Shadow of a Shadow: The Double Sanitization of the Visceral Word

By Miaad Banki

“There are countless books I would have loved to translate”: A Conversation with Jordi Fibla Feito

By Eduardo Suárez Fernández-Miranda

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Poetry

Poems and Aphorisms

By Juan Carlos Galeano

Poems from The Voice of Home

By Rosabetty Muñoz

Three Poems from Odd Psalms

By Evodio Escalante

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BOOK REVIEWS

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Las alas de la libélula de Alfredo Herrera

By Jorge Malpartida
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Lithium by Malén Denis, translated by Laura Hatry and John Wronoski

By Alexa Cohen
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RESEÑA FINALISTA:
El simulacro de los espejos de Vicente Battista

By Moisés Roberto Cárdenas Chacón
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RESEÑA FINALISTA:
La jevita que no encajaba de Becky Plaza

By Yéiber Román
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Se hace otoño de Susanne Noltenius 

By Luis Hernán Castañeda
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El estilo de los elementos de Rodrigo Fresán

By Christian Jiménez Kanahuaty
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Indigenous Literature

Four Trilingual Poems from Because of the Silence

By Kalu Tatyisavi

“The Rain’s Heart Is Disturbed”

By Gloria Cáceres Vargas

“Perhaps”

By Baruc Martínez Díaz

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BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

Three Poems from Ninguém quis ver

By Bruna Mitrano

Five Sonnets from The Art of Killing

By Salgado Maranhão

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Translation Previews and New Releases

Tales of Love, Madness and Death, translated by Diego Jourdan Pereira

By Horacio Quiroga

Sardine, translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin

By Miriam Reyes

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Fiction

Pig

By Ariana Harwicz

Las adelantadas

By Rafael Gumucio

The Redemptorist

By María Teresa Andruetto

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Editor’s Pick: Poetry from the Southern Cone

Three Poems from Stone Pilgrims (1909) 

By Julio Herrera y Reissig

Three Poems from The Empty Chalices (1913) 

By Delmira Agustini

A Selection from Poems of Love (1926)

By Alfonsina Storni

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