Lily Meyer

is a writer, critic, and translator. Her work has been published by The Atlantic, Hyperallergic, Public Books, the Poetry Foundation, NPR’s Books, and other venues.

FictionFebruary 24, 2022

The Enigma of Roberto Bolaño

David Kurnick’s new book reappraises the Chilean writer, clarifying the preconceptions and myths that haunted his earliest work.

Lily Meyer
Latin AmericaOctober 29, 2021

The Moral and Magical Political Fictions of Carolina de Robertis

The Uruguayan American novelist’s The President and the Frog asks us to consider: What does it mean to be a good political actor?

Lily Meyer
FictionMay 13, 2021

The Mundane and Alienated Life of a Freelancer

Kavita Bedford’s novel Friends and Dark Shapes explores the false promises and precarity of writing in the age of the gig economy.

Lily Meyer

Lily Meyer

FictionFebruary 24, 2022

The Enigma of Roberto Bolaño

David Kurnick’s new book reappraises the Chilean writer, clarifying the preconceptions and myths that haunted his earliest work.

Lily Meyer

Latin AmericaOctober 29, 2021

The Moral and Magical Political Fictions of Carolina de Robertis

The Uruguayan American novelist’s The President and the Frog asks us to consider: What does it mean to be a good political actor?

Lily Meyer

FictionMay 13, 2021

The Mundane and Alienated Life of a Freelancer

Kavita Bedford’s novel Friends and Dark Shapes explores the false promises and precarity of writing in the age of the gig economy.

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Lily Meyer

FictionFebruary 24, 2022

David Kurnick’s new book reappraises the Chilean writer, clarifying the preconceptions and myths that haunted his earliest work.

Latin AmericaOctober 29, 2021

The Uruguayan American novelist’s The President and the Frog asks us to consider: What does it mean to be a good political actor?

FictionMay 13, 2021

Kavita Bedford’s novel Friends and Dark Shapes explores the false promises and precarity of writing in the age of the gig economy.