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Glory and its Litany of Horrors (Excerpt)

Fernanda Torres

Excerpt from Glory and its Litany of Horrors Translated from the Portuguese by Eric M. B. Becker Brazilian actor Mario Cardoso recounts a disastrous performance of King Lear, which would…

Fiction

The Chronicler

Ilan Stavans

The following constitutes chapter 3 of Ilan Stavans’ new book The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery (PSUP, with etchings by Eko), due out in October, which explored the resurfacing of…

Fiction

Pobre Diabla

Irasema Fernández

English version by Robin Myers Ever heard an ambulance siren turning off? It’s a languid sound, lower and slower every second. Really sad, papi. It’s the sound of happiness trickling…

Fiction

INVERTIDOS

Héctor Toledano

Así es la pantomima inglesa, nos explicaron, un asunto carnavalesco. Todos los papeles se asignaban al revés: los de hombres a mujeres y los de mujeres a hombres. La única…

Fiction

Shoes Make the Man

David Unger

For David Campbell and Joseph Lingad When Rick died of pancreatic cancer, his wife Gina gave me seven pairs of his shoes. It wasn’t as if I hankered after his…

Fiction

Maneras de desaparecer

Isabel Zapata

Neddy Merril, el personaje de Cheever que decide regresar nadando a su casa por el Río Lucinda, la hilera de piscinas de sus vecinos, agradece vivir en un mundo tan…

Fiction

HOW DID YOU BEGIN TO SING

Martha Bátiz

Translated by Gustavo Escobedo My mother played the flute, and for a while she played in a local orchestra where we lived. She loved music. She took me to the…

Fiction

January Rain

Alejandro Rossi

Translated from the Spanish by Janice Goveas “We’ll meet again.” The words went around and around in his head for days. He tried to shake them off. They felt as…

Fiction

Thursday

Tony Bellotto

1 Before I was awake I could already hear the annoying sound of a telephone ringing insistently. I was floating in an intermediate state between deep sleep and wakefulness and arose…

Fiction

Una nueva traducción de Bajo el Volcán, de Malcolm Lowry

Malcolm Lowry

[Al final del Capítulo I de la novela Bajo el volcán, de Malcolm Lowry, aparece casi como acto de magia el fragmento de una posible carta escrita por el protagonista, que…

Fiction

La virgen cabeza (fragmento)

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

En 2009, Eterna Cadencia publicó la primera novela de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, que habría de convertirse en la punta de lanza de una nueva vanguardia argentina donde suenan Mariana Enríquez,…

Fiction

Basura (Fragmento)

Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny

Me dice la Serena que quieres trabajar con nosotras, que ya tienes experiencia y toda la cosa, ¿es cierto? Deja te miro. Ay, chula, no sé, tienes pinta de que…