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“Mujica Lainez’s Duke of Bomarzo is a lantern that illuminates... our tenebrous but also brilliant little lives.”

By Álvaro Enrigue | August 8, 2025

Remembering the Great Manuel Puig, Cosmopolitan Chronicler of the Everyday

Remembering the Great Manuel Puig, Cosmopolitan Chronicler of the Everyday

Suzanne Jill Levine on Knowing and Translating One of Latin America’s Finest 20th Century Writers

By Suzanne Jill Levine | June 30, 2025

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria"> “My First Porno, My First Dildo, My First Love.” On José Donoso’s <em

“My First Porno, My First Dildo, My First Love.” On José Donoso’s <em

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The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria">“My First Porno, My First Dildo, My First Love.” On José Donoso’s The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria

Gabriela Wiener Considers a Beloved, Life-Changing Book

By Gabriela Wiener | March 17, 2025

Dengue Boy"> Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s <em

Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s <em

Dengue Boy">Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy

Rahul Bery on Translating a Stylistically Innovative Work of South American Science Fiction

By Rahul Bery | February 5, 2025

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

Joy Castro in Conversation with the Author of “The Only Sound Is the Wind”

By Joy Castro | October 1, 2024

A Queer, Carnivalesque Vision of Chile’s Independence Day from Pedro Lemebel

A Queer, Carnivalesque Vision of Chile’s Independence Day from Pedro Lemebel

From “A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays”

By Pedro Lemebel | May 29, 2024

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John Manuel Arias on Decolonial Storytelling and the Multi-Generational Family Novel

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"The text vacillates between presence and absence, between reality and irreality, and even between life and death."

By Douglas J. Weatherford | September 27, 2023

The Lost Steps"> The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's <em

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The Lost Steps">The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps

"Art entails a kind of knowledge that is undoubtedly transcendent in character. And yet art must be, is, something more."

By Leonardo Padura | September 18, 2023

The Life and Times of Iconic Cuban Novelist José Lezama Lima

The Life and Times of Iconic Cuban Novelist José Lezama Lima

Gabriel Pasquini on How a Writer Gets Disappeared—and Rehabilitated

By Gabriel Pasquini | November 22, 2021

The Luminous Novel"> The Parallel Lives of Translators: On Mario Levrero’s <em

The Parallel Lives of Translators: On Mario Levrero’s <em

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Annie McDermott Marvels at the Genius of One of Latin America's Most Esteemed Writer

By Annie McDermott | August 5, 2021

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By Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones | April 15, 2021

Isabel Allende on Literary Ambition and the Power of Mentorship

Isabel Allende on Literary Ambition and the Power of Mentorship

"In the absence of ambition I had good luck."

By Isabel Allende | March 2, 2021

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