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When My Body Ceased to Be Your Home (Ilseâs memories from Colonial Dignidad)
âą Emma SepĂșlveda: When My Body Ceased to Be Your Home (Literal Publishing/Hablemos escritoras, 2025). Translated by Denise Kripper In 1961, the same year the Berlin Wall was built, a…
Winterâs Fury By Perla Suez
WinterÂŽs 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 by Ălvaro Enrigue (Penguin Random House) Translated by Natasha Wilmer The few months that HernĂĄn CortĂ©s spent in Tenochtitlan were some of the most consequential in…
Cross Stitch
Cross Stitch Jazmina Berrerra Translated by Christina Macsweeney In English, âtext,â or the written word, and âtextile,â or a piece of fabric, both originate from the Latin verb texere, which…
âHouse of Geishasâ Ana MarĂa Shua
House of Geishas by Ana MarĂa Shua. Translated by Steven J. Stewart Perhaps the most famous microfiction of all time, a six-word storyâoften attributed, without evidence, to Hemingwayâregularly pops up…
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Languages, Faith and MIgration
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
âThis is Not Miamiâ 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 By Gisela Heffes Translated by Grady C. Wray Deep Vellum Press When Joan Didion famously wrote, in her essay âThe White Album,â that â[w]e tell ourselves stories in order…
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 by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman. Translated by D. P. Snyder (Literal Publishing/Hablemos escritoras, 2022) At the end of Arrhythmias, Angelina Muñiz-Hubermanâs collection of 32 short essays and imaginative pieces,…
Ten Planets
Translated by Lisa Dillman âYou know how predictable I find speculative fiction,â Pirg says to Zorg, in one of the stories of âTen Planets,â Yuri Herreraâs new collection. âItâs formulaic,…