Federico Falco, the award-winning Argentinian novelist, short story writer and poet, is publishing his first work in English this month with Charco Press. A Perfect Cemetery is a rich, sophisticated portrait of rural life and its complexities, largely set in... Read Article
Tender is the Flesh, written by Argentinian author Agustina Bazterrica (original title Cadáver exquisito), is not a pretty book: it’s a hard one to read. Marcos Tejo, the main character, runs a meat processing plant, but it is... Read Article
On November 15, 2012, the Argentinean parliament passed a new law inscribing femicidios (femicides) into the penal code, deeming them to be aggravated homicides which could, given certain conditions, punish the perpetrator with life in prison. Selva Almada’s... Read Article
In his short essay Kafka and his Precursors, Borges writes of the Czech author that “at first I had considered him to be as singular as the phoenix of rhetorical praise.” This quote could easily be applied to... Read Article
Carlos Gamerro’s The Islands starts in the impressive company of Fausto Tamerlán, a man as devilish and compromised as his name suggests. He is an unapologetic plutocratic kingpin happy to create dystopia and a fitting conduit for the... Read Article
