Días amarillosJavier Payeras2009, Magna Terra Editores95 pages IN HIS short novel Días amarillos (“Yellow days”), Javier Payeras describes the violence of a city once ravaged by armed conflict and its subsequent hangover. A journalist, who is going through a divorce, he questions his own integrity as he works for one of those tabloids that makes…
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
The Mexican writer David Toscana uses a familiar map of Latin America’s solitudes to chart an unfamiliar narrative course
Categories: Mexico, North America
Eli Gardner reassesses an early work by Enrique Serna to argue that the Mexican writer should be read, watched … and translated in the years to come
Categories: Mexico, North America
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Categories: Brazil, South America
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Categories: Argentina, South America
Like all timeless texts, Juan José Saer’s The Witness contains a message about survival that has contemporary resonance
Categories: Argentina, South America
Ricardo Piglia’s Brechtian Money to Burn asks pressing questions about the ambivalent nature of capitalism
Categories: Argentina, South America, Uruguay
2666, Roberto Bolaño’s dark, furious, final burst of creativity as he was dying was, inevitably, fascinated with death – yet reveals an extraordinary eye for the living
Categories: Chile, Mexico, North America, South America
