Esther Allen
Esther Allen’s translation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s Zama received the 2017 National Translation Award. A professor at City University of New York, she has published essays and translations in the New York Review of Books, Poetryfoundation.org, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review, LitHub, Words Without Borders and elsewhere.
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Fiction | Issue 155
The Animal Gesture
Alejandro Morellón
‘I have drunk from the same waters as the son of Hermes and Aphrodite.’
Fiction by Alejandro Morellón, translated by Esther Allen.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 155
Bad Nature
Javier Marías
‘I saw him slipping into belligerence, the ghost of James Dean descended upon him and sent a shiver down my spine.’