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Alfred Mac Adam

Alfred Mac Adam is a professor of Latin American Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has translated works by Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, José Donoso, Juan Carlos Onetti, Fernando Pessoa, Osvaldo Soriano and Mario Vargas Llosa, and most recently Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Rodrigo Hasbún on Antônio Xerxenesky

Antônio Xerxenesky & Rodrigo Hasbún

‘Seven pages are also enough, the seven that make up this story, to discover Xerxenesky’s extraordinary talent.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Sònia Hernández on Carola Saavedra

Carola Saavedra & Sònia Hernández

‘It’s quite uncommon to find dialogues that engulf you from the first word.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Javier Montes on Emilio Fraia

Javier Montes

‘Fraia sets himself the most difficult and respectable task a writer can face: unveiling the mystery without revealing the secret.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117

Deng’s Dogs

Santiago Roncagliolo

‘My earliest memory of Peru is a newspaper photograph from 1980 of dead dogs hanging from lamp posts in downtown Lima.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117

Translations in the Making

Various Contributors

‘I’m still not satisfied. Names are so tough. And so critical.’

Fiction | Issue 113

Fiction | Issue 113

Seltz

Carlos Yushimito

‘I thought I’d found the answer to many of life’s mysteries, but I had no words to share with the world.’