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Photo by throgers / FlickrIn what follows, I have created three heteronyms to render Pablo Neruda’s “Oda al actor” into English. They are presented in chronological order by date of birth. Their views…
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February 28, 2022“Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies,” Roberto Bolaño, who enjoyed accruing enemies in the pantheon of Latin American letters, writes in the short story “Meeting with Enrique Lihn” (…
February 2, 2022Photo by Miko Guziuk / Unsplash In his newest book, What Is American Literature? (Oxford University Press, 2022), award-winning cultural commentator, translator, and editor Ilan Stavans,…
October 28, 2020Illustrations by Eko / Courtesy of Penn State University Press Next week, Penn State University Press will release A Pre-Columbian Bestiary, which the Press describes as “an encyclopedic…
September 7, 2017Grave at the US/Mexico border taken at a cemetery near Anthony, New Mexico, July 19, 2015 / Photo by Lanie Elizabeth The following is an excerpt from part 2 of a four-part poem called “T…
September 3, 2015The following essay is adapted from Quixote: The Novel and the World, due out from W.W. Norton next week. Asteroid 3552 displays some bizarre, disassociated behavior. Astronomers des…
Illustration adapted from Nikki Pugh/Flickr With bookstores and the publishing world in crisis, could ads within books be the answer? Victoria’s Secret in Pride and Prejudi…- American exceptionalism makes us believe we are extraordinary. Consequently, we trust our literature is outstanding as well. Truth is, we are as narrow as everyone else, and our literature showcas…
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