Kanada (excerpt)
Juan Gómez Bárcena Translated by Andrea Rosenberg
You go to the window to watch the Neighbor leave. He’s accompanied by two men. They’re wearing hats pulled down tight over... Read More »
Cardenio (excerpt)
Carlos Gamerro
They lived together on the Bankside, not far from the playhouse, both bachelors; lay together; had one wench in the house between them, which... Read More »
Islands
Gabriela Poma
The sleeping pills had finally worn off.
Her left eye opened, a slit, and she remembered to breathe.
Yo no entiendo nada de esto.
The world seemed... Read More »
DARK (an overture)
Edgardo Cozarinsky translated by Cayley Taylor
It starts, always, in the temples, an almost imperceptible throbbing at first, and in the precise moment he acknowledges it, that pulsing starts... Read More »
The Riverbed
Carol Bensimon translated by Adam Morris
They so happened to be born in a rather small town between two more or less larger ones, something they couldn’t get used... Read More »
Writing Lessons for the Blind and Deaf (excerpt)
from the future Spanish of Mario Bellatin translated by David Shook
Josué’s mother was blind. Not always. She lost her eyes one at a time, starting... Read More »
Black Ball
Mario Bellatin translated by Andrea Rosenberg
1- BLACK BALL RELOADED
Author’s first look at the bande dessinée Black Ball
Yesterday I received some information about the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. I... Read More »
Alternative Scenarios For Lovers
Szilvia Molnar
1. I come home to a burnt-down house in Lund. You’re back in Malmö. I’m watching my parents gather half-scorched photographs in... Read More »
Trees at Night
Ramiro Sanchiz Translated by Audrey Hall
On the outskirts of Punta de Piedra, there is a bar a good distance beyond the last line of houses. From the untidy... Read More »
Ravensbread (selections)
Nuno Ramos translated by Adam Morris
Geology Lesson
There’s a layer of dust covering things, protecting them from us. Dark sooty powder, fragments of salt and seaweed, tons of grainy... Read More »
Love
Zhang Ailing translated by Qiaomei Tang
It is true.
There was a village. There was a girl from a well-to-do family. She was a beauty. Matchmakers came, but... Read More »
Hegira
Adam Morris
Slakers shambled along the coasts, the brine in the breeze searing nostrils, lashing cheekbones and the edges of eyelids, whittling parts of faces to... Read More »
Marilyn Monroe, my mother
Neda Miranda Blažević-Kreitzman translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Many people wrestle with discomfort and fear when they travel by air. Dino Lučić and Veljko Linić were... Read More »
The Makeup Wars
Dany Salvatierra translated by Sarah Bruni
Blanca started unbuttoning her dress only when she was sure she wasn’t being spied on by the line of horrified women crowded in... Read More »
Alfredito
Liliana Colanzi translated by Chris Meade
Once, when I was a little girl, I saw a pig being killed. It was summer. Flies were launching themselves against the windows.... Read More »
The Invisible Mourner
Ken Harvey
Gordon’s cold had gone deeper, his breathing raspy and heavy. He had just made an appointment to see his doctor later that afternoon... Read More »
Zanzibar: an excerpt
Thibault de Montaigu translated by Lara Vergnaud
Some people will no doubt feel this work lacks precision and that it’s impossible to write a decent book about a criminal... Read More »
A Love Story
Bernardo Carvalho translated by Max Seawright
1.
He haggles over fish at the wharf. He’s done it since before his tenth birthday. His mother makes him. It’s no accident he... Read More »
Lions
Iosi Havilio translated by Andrea Rosenberg
And in the middle of the day came the night . . . Down the hill, all made of shadows, the Protagonist... Read More »
The only happy ending for a love story is an accident (excerpt)
The Pizarro Sisters
Juan Álvarez translated by Heather Cleary
“What,” I said. That was how I answered the phone then. It was a forceful what—scrappy, combative. But combative isn’t quite the word, because... Read More »
I’ve Lost Everything I Loved (excerpt)
from J’ai perdu tout ce que j’aimais by Sacha Sperling translated by Addie Leak
I had decided that my name would be Sacha Sperling and... Read More »
Mar del Plata
Rosario Bléfari translated by Hilary Levinson
We’re standing in the plaza, watching the man who makes ashtrays in just a minute or two. The scent of freshly burned wood.... Read More »
Black Ball
Mario Bellatin translated by Andrea Rosenberg
1- BLACK BALL RELOADED Author’s first look at the bande dessinée Black Ball
Yesterday I received some information about the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal.... Read More »
The Prouf is in the Vermouf
James Warner
The first account our agency landed was a fortified wine called Clouf. Roland slammed a bottle on my desk and told me to think... Read More »
The Tall Trees: A Juno Novelette
Paul Scheerbart translated by Joel Morris
The tall trees groped more and more intensely in the air with their long branch arms and could not... Read More »
Everything Good That I Know I Learned from Women
Tryno Maldonado translated by Janet Hendrickson
1
My mother is a teacher. A preschool teacher. If you want to fuck up a man’s amorous relationships with... Read More »
The Ceremony
Inés Marcó translated by Alex Niemi
CAST
Pope Layman Guard of the Brotherhood Brothers of the Circle
The characters meet at the entrance of a large urinal. The Pope is... Read More »
The German Lesson
Eva Marer
The German teacher lived on a street of towering trees. Their weeping boughs stroked the curb, leaving sun-dappled green tunnels you could walk through.... Read More »
Dragon in Clouds
Juan Carlos Mondragón translated by Leah Leone
Until the middle of the afternoon of the day before yesterday, I thought I had a good angle for the article I... Read More »
Good Enough for Jesus
Russell Scott Valentino
“If English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.” —Texas Governor “Ma” Ferguson (apocryphal)
He doesn’t want to say the wrong thing. Who knows what... Read More »
The Mothers of Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, and Jorge Luis Borges Meet in Heaven
Mary Gordon
An angel in a golden robe escorts the last of three ladies of a certain age into a well-appointed sitting room. It is tenderly lit; there... Read More »
Three Snapshots on the Way Down
Edgardo Cozarinsky translated by the author
1. “Il vecchio non trova pace”
What’s that you’re saying, I am about to snap at the barman with my coldest voice... Read More »
from The Sofa Sages
Eitán Futuro translated by Jennifer Croft
Lara began to kiss me. I hadn’t kissed her first because I thought you couldn’t kiss them on the mouth. I touched... Read More »
Bestiary
Aaron Thier
Perhaps one discovers the Aberdeen Bestiary in a moment of idleness. Perhaps while searching, as sometimes one must, for descriptions of carnal love between... Read More »
Natanael’s Notebook
Veronica Stigger translated by Ramon Stern and Chris Meade
Opalka entered the small room in his son Natanael’s house and walked to the window, under which was... Read More »
The Birthday Card
Dorothy Spears
An impotent man on vacation, so potent at work, keeps going at his wife every night, every afternoon. “I need to prove that I’m... Read More »
Tufts of Dark Hair Attached to Indeterminate Bodies
Lincoln Michel
The wind whipped salty air against Silas Woodrow’s face, but his daughter was nowhere in sight. She was always doing things like this.
Silas walked... Read More »
Smoke
Giovanna Rivero translated by Rachael Small
The pointless memories are the most beautiful ones. I must have been, what, eight years old when this guy with a... Read More »
The Reversal Spell
David Leavitt
The day that Paris was declared an Open City, I went to say goodbye to the Baron. He was one of my oldest friends.... Read More »
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