Hace poco, hablaba con amigas muy cercanas de cómo la sociedad, a pesar de desarrollarse dentro de una cultura abierta y repetir este concepto de que Estados Unidos es The…
One day, when Alejandra Oliva spent time in Boston observing immigration court cases, she witnessed a strange event. The story appears toward the end of her book Rivermouth: A Chronicle…
“This is Not Miami” Fernanda Melchor Translated by Sophie Hughes New Directions The best stories seduce. They draw you in and make you fall for them, become infatuated with…
Ischia By Gisela Heffes Translated by Grady C. Wray Deep Vellum Press When Joan Didion famously wrote, in her essay “The White Album,” that “[w]e tell ourselves stories in order…
*The Book of Eve by Carmen Boullosa. Translated by Samantha Schnee If read closely, the Book of Genesis is very strange. Light and darkness, as well as night and day,…
* Arrhythmias by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman. Translated by D. P. Snyder (Literal Publishing/Hablemos escritoras, 2022) At the end of Arrhythmias, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman’s collection of 32 short essays and imaginative pieces,…
Translated by Lisa Dillman “You know how predictable I find speculative fiction,” Pirg says to Zorg, in one of the stories of “Ten Planets,” Yuri Herrera’s new collection. “It’s formulaic,…
Chamber Canon By Tununa Mercado Translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan Literal Publishing Chamber Canon, Tununa Mercado’s 1988 collection of short stories, vignettes, and meditations, begins with definitions. Now in an…
Blood Red By Gabriela Ponce Restless Press Translated by Sarah Booker In writing her first novel, Gabriela Ponce must have known it would have been impossible to stage. Ponce, a…
Chilean Poet Alejandro Zambra Translated by Megan McDowell Published by Viking If you Google Alejandro Zambra, the first thing that comes up, beneath his name and next to a…
Partway through the short story “Broken,” early on in Martha Batiz’s new story collection, an unbearably sad thing happens. Adela, whose daughter, Alma, has disappeared, spends most of her time…
In his 2015 year-end report, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote about the federal judiciary’s approach toward technological change. “The courts will always be prudent,” he wrote, “whenever it comes to…