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HistoryJanuary 22, 2014
Law of Life, and Light
A new history of Chile is a wrestling match between fatalism and optimism.
Lorna Scott Fox
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BiographyJune 18, 2013
The Last Unfinished Page: On Euclides da Cunha
A portrait of the journalist and intellectual who championed the caboclos of the young Brazilian republic.
Lorna Scott Fox
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CultureFebruary 15, 2012
A Child of Sleepwalkers: On Gregor von Rezzori
A novelist’s grim portrait of Central Europe between the wars.
Lorna Scott Fox
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CultureMarch 23, 2011
Possible Humans: On Juan José Saer
The achievement of Juan José Saer’s fiction, next to its sensuousness, is its creation of an all-engulfing present.
Lorna Scott Fox
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FictionMay 20, 2010
Eyes Wide Open
For Herta Müller, writing is not a matter of trusting, but rather of the honesty of the deceit.
Lorna Scott Fox
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FictionMay 20, 2009
Toad Skin? Fernando del Paso’s News From the Empire
News From the Empire hacks out a sinuous, branching path that connects fantasy with fact and allegory with analysis.
Lorna Scott Fox
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Books and IdeasMarch 18, 2009
There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing
An anthology of true crime writing appeals to the culture vulture–and the plain old vulture–in us.
Lorna Scott Fox
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FictionJanuary 3, 2008
Fly Papers
An English translation of Lydie Salvayre’s The Power of Flies demonstrates how this novelist and practicing psychiatrist has earned more nervous respect than love in France.
Lorna Scott Fox