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Mephisto's Waltz Sergio Pitol Deep Vellum Press Sergio Pitol died earlier this year. He left behind celebrated short stories, novels, and nonfiction. A review couldn't hope to adequately summarize his…

By Daniel Peña Arte Público Press, 2018  Bang,  the new novel by Daniel Peña, starts, fittingly, with a bang. In this case it is a literal bang, a plane crash,…

Plaza Requiem: Stories at the Edge of Ordinary Lives Martha Bátiz Exile Editions $19.95 If you're wondering what this story collection is going to be about, you can look no…

Empty Set By Verónica Gerber Bicecci Coffee House Press $16.95 Verónica dreams of reordering time. Living in a Mexico City apartment with her brother, she envisions "the past in a…

 Cristina García Counterpoint Press “The world is draining itself,” W.G. Sebald wrote in Austerlitz, “in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power of memory…

It's a famous and oft-repeated fact that about 90 miles separate the United States and Cuba. That proximity, at least until the passing of the Teller Amendment, lent many Americans,…

Thus Bad Begins, by Javier Marías. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Javier Marías doesn't want to be "what they call a 'real Spanish writer.'" These are authors who, Marîas says, prominently…

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin. Translated by Megan McDowell At least in American cinema, ecological stories are frequently contained in the legal thriller, in morality tales like The Rainmaker, or Erin Brockovich,…

Julio Cortázar Translated by Stephen Kessler City Lights Books Toward the end of his life, Julio Cortázar, living in Paris and surveying the significant trove of verse he had written—to…