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
Think about what you do when you’re alone at home. Would you act differently if you knew you were being watched? Would you take the chance to be a voyeur in someone else’s life? Samanta Schweblin’s latest novel... 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
Andrés Neuman is an internationally acclaimed Argentinian writer of novels, short stories and poetry. Fracture is his sixth novel and the third one to be translated into English by the incredibly talented Nick Caistor and Lorenza García. Fracture... Read Article
The 41st Buenos Aires International Book Fair took place April 21 to May 11 at La Rural fairground and was opened by renowned playwright Roberto “Tito” Coss. There were 500 exhibitors, 4,000 publishing houses and an estimated 1.3... Read Article
The conversations specified in the title of this book date from March 1984, when Jorge Luis Borges and Osvaldo Ferrari came together on Radio Municipal in Buenos Aires, to discuss subjects of mutual interest. Borges, the senior partner... 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
In 1980 the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar gave a series of eight lectures at Berkeley’s Spanish and Portuguese department. Getting him to Berkeley had not been easy. In 1969 he refused Columbia University’s invitation to be a visiting... Read Article
Many of Argentina’s publishers are currently feeling aggrieved at the Government’s decision to impose a strict regulation for books to be printed within the country, a decision which has led to a huge stock-piling of books at customs... Read Article
If you’re making a search today on Google you may find yourself looking at an image of an old man standing in front of a fantasy backdrop (pictured above). That old man is Jorge Luis Borges and today... Read Article
