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
As a lawyer in training myself, I might already try not to take portrayals of legal professionals too seriously. Given Mercedes Rosende’s Crocodile Tears is a black-comedy and a self-deprecating, partial critique of the police institution and of... Read Article
When the topic of 19th century writers comes up, for many, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Leo Tolstoy and Gustave Flaubert spring to mind; and rightly so, they all wrote influential novels and novellas, chronicles and... Read Article
For me, 2020 was a big year of reading in translation. In a year where COVID-19 made us all stay at home, reading provided me with one way of avoiding my world being reduced to my flat. 2020... Read Article
“The memories we return to most frequently are the most inaccurate, the least faithful to reality…“ Mexican author Daniel Saldaña París’ latest novel Ramifications (translated by Christina McSweeney) is centered around a single act that happens during the... Read Article
