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Las redes también cancelan

Las redes también cancelan

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…
Winter’s Fury  By Perla Suez

Winter’s Fury By Perla Suez

Winter´s Fury by Perla Suez. Translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan. (Literal Publishing, 2024) When a terrorist act is committed, be it a bombing or a shooting or some other atrocious…
You Dreamed of Empires

You Dreamed of Empires

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue (Penguin Random House) Translated by Natasha Wilmer The few months that Hernán Cortés spent in Tenochtitlan were some of the most consequential in…
Cross Stitch

Cross Stitch

Cross Stitch Jazmina Berrerra Translated by Christina Macsweeney In English, “text,” or the written word, and “textile,” or a piece of fabric, both originate from the Latin verb texere, which…
“House of Geishas”  Ana María Shua

“House of Geishas” Ana María Shua

House of Geishas by Ana María Shua. Translated by Steven J. Stewart Perhaps the most famous microfiction of all time, a six-word story—often attributed, without evidence, to Hemingway—regularly pops up…
This is Not Miami

This is Not Miami

“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

Ischia

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

The Book of Eve

*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

Arrhythmias

* 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,…
Ten Planets

Ten Planets

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

Chamber Canon By Tununa Mercado

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…