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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…

“With her firm, fleshy hand, Martica pressed Mirla’s fingers to her groin.” So begins, arrestingly, the final story of María Ospina’s fiction collection, Variations on the Body.  Martica’s direction, soon…

Naief Yehya Hyperbole Books Translation by Uriel Murillo Sosa, Lorenzo Antonio Nericcio, and the author It is a truism that September 11, 2001 changed the world. But like any major…

The Most Fragile Objects by Alberto Chimal, English translation by George Henson “To need to dominate others,” wrote Fernando Pessoa, "is to need others. The commander is the dependent.”  It’s…

Not many authors—especially those still living—have a library named after them.  But if you're in El Paso, you’ll see, along Alameda Avenue, the Sergio Troncoso branch of the El Paso…

*Published by Gival Press, 2019 $15 C.M. Mayo is a prolific English translator of contemporary Mexican literature. While she is originally from Texas, she has long made her home in…