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Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.

A novelist’s lyrical attempt to measure the immeasurable.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner opens up on Occupy Wall Street, the United Nations and prospects for serious social reform.

The Latin Boom writers failed to appreciate the work of fellow novelist Manuel Puig, who wrote about housewives and homosexuals.

Two new collections of the poems of Jorge Luis Borges.

Though a new four-volume compilation of Paris Review interviews is filled with riches, it is tailored to the tastes of a polite literary culture.

Though a new four-volume compilation of Paris Review interviews is filled with riches, it is tailored to the tastes of a polite literary culture.

How well do you remember the events that shook up--and let down--America in 2010?

Workers in the United States and Europe are beginning to ask the same question as their Latin American counterparts: why do we have to get fired?

As cities around the world are rocked with protests, it's clear governments that respond to economic crisis with the discredited free-market agenda will not survive.