Patricia Marechal

The story of Widener Library starts with a tragedy. Widener is not only a place of study and one of the largest reservoirs of books and... Read More »

Rafael Toriz Translated by Julia Ostmann

Chatting Over A Drink Conversation in the Convent

Being, appearing to be, and running a bookstore in Mexico is a high art, not... Read More »

Victoria Liendo translated by Victoria Lampard

To Charles Coustille, guilty of making me love France, he who declares himself innocent of everything.

Libraries very much resemble churches: there are some that can... Read More »

Álvaro Bisama translated by Julia Ostmann

My favorite bookstore is a ghost bookstore. It was called the Orellana and was located in the center of Valparaíso. It closed a... Read More »

Julián Fuks translated by Sarah Bruni

Call it bookstore anxiety disorder. I know I’m not the first to suffer from this affliction, and I won’t be the... Read More »

By Marfa Nekrasova translated by Nathan Jeffers

The word Hyperion has many possible meanings; it can refer to a book, a poem, a tree,... Read More »

 Natalka Sniadanko Translated from Ukrainian by Jennifer Croft

“No photos,” barks the geezer wearing the typically Soviet hat with the visor, synthetic leather sandals, an untucked shirt, and pants... Read More »

Hugh Ferrer

For as little as $140, anyone now can now buy his or her own little bookstore—for that is essentially what an e-book reader is: a combination... Read More »

Juan Soto Ivars

I used to live in Madrid, but now I only go when I’m able, and feel like it. When I get there I perform certain... Read More »

The fire began surreptitiously, away from the bar’s carousing punters, but soon crept into the kitchen. There it licked at the piled gas cylinders, unleashing a conflagration of such... Read More »

Alicia Bisso translated by Heather Cleary

I never liked poetry. My self-imposed task of learning to read it began with a strange discovery. One afternoon, a traffic jam... Read More »

Maryia Martysevich

The Republic of Belarus is often called “the last dictatorship of Europe,” but you’d hardly think so upon arriving in Minsk, its capital. This... Read More »

Milton Läufer translated by Heather Cleary

It’s true: Edipo is an ugly bookstore. And yet, though this may seem like a contradiction, its most notable... Read More »