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FictionJune 2, 2022
Raw Speech, Raw Stories: A Conversation With Fernanda Melchor
Her new novel, Paradais, is an explosive exploration of the boundaries of the Spanish language and the the banal brutality of everyday violence.
Lucas Iberico Lozada
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FictionApril 25, 2022
The Zoological Nightmares of Rafael Bernal
The Mexican writer’s 1947 novel His Name Was Death dramatizes humanity’s ecological arrogance through the story of a mosquito swarm with plans of world destruction.
Lucas Iberico Lozada
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Latin AmericaAugust 19, 2021
The Distortions of Pinochet
Nona Fernández’s novels reckon with the Chilean dictatorship through surreality and memory.
Lucas Iberico Lozada
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FictionJuly 9, 2020
Not Catharsis but Vengeance: The Startling Fiction of Fernanda Melchor
Her novel Hurricane Season burrows into the circumstances of a small-town murder and what it says about a society that disregards femicide.
Lucas Iberico Lozada
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Books and IdeasDecember 4, 2019
‘I Hotel’ Is the Unheralded Document of a Decade of Asian American Activism
Karen Tei Yamashita’s recently republished epic novel is a reminder of fiction’s ability to both transmit and embody transformational ideas.
Lucas Iberico Lozada