Jonathan Blitzer is on the editorial staff of The New Yorker.
Philip Glass’s new opera, The Perfect American, is a mix of bluster and inspiration.
How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.
El País, Público and Spain’s Second Transition.
In a nonfiction account of a failed coup, the novelist Javier Cercas tackles the confounding history of Spain’s transition to democracy.
Juan Carlos Onetti immerses himself in reality just long enough to fashion an escape. This is his peculiar gift.