Latin American Books: 2020 Highlights
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
Yuri Herrera
Another Possible Conclusion: An Interview with Mexican Writer Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera is an acclaimed Mexican author, best-known for the novel Signs Preceding the End of the World which was chosen as one of the Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century and won the 2016 Best... Read Article
The 15 Must Read Books For Anyone Travelling to Latin America
I can still vividly remember the weeks preceding my first excursion alone in Latin America, to Nicaragua and Honduras, in which I was completely engulfed in the poems of Ruben Dario, the biography of Augusto Sandino, and paperback... Read Article
Yuri Herrera – The Transmigration of Bodies
“Really there’s no cause for concern, we have the best and the brightest tracking down whatever this is, and of course we have hospitals too, but, just in case, you know, best to stay home and not kiss... Read Article
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
What instantly grabs you in this tiny sliver of a novel is its twisting poetry, wrought like iron into imagery both beautiful and apocalyptic, only to be sliced by speech that whistles like an arrow. “Slippery bitch of... Read Article