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Issue 21

Volume 1,

Number 21.

February,

2022

In our twenty-first issue, we shine a spotlight on translation with a cover feature dedicated to Megan McDowell, the translator of many of Latin America’s best-known contemporary writers. Other features include a dossier of literary voices from Bolivia and a full set of fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews, plus exclusive translation previews and writing by Indigenous poets of the Wayuu, Shuar, and Quechua peoples.

Cover photo: Sebastián Escalona

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: February 2022

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Translator: Megan McDowell

An Excerpt from Yesterday

By Juan Emar, Megan McDowell

“That visceral experience is what I’m trying to recreate”: An Interview with Megan McDowell

By Denise Kripper

McDowell Style

By Carlos Fonseca

Reading Megan

By Alejandro Zambra

The Labors of Language

By Lina Meruane

Dossier: Bolivian Literature

Epigraph

By Homero Carvalho Oliva

Future Worlds at the Hairdresser’s: Altopía as Comic and Literature

By Gabriel Guzmán Camacho

An Imperfect Day

By Giovanna Rivero

“What’s new is the interest in this old darkness”: An Interview with Giovanna Rivero

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

The Woman and the Girl

By Rodrigo Hasbún

Brazilian Literature

Two Poems from Minas Gerais

By Líria Porto & Ana C Moura

Screens and Texts: Five Poets from Minas Gerais

By Ana Elisa Ribeiro

Five Poems

By Ramon Nunes Mello

Fiction

Trepanation of Ash

By Emiliano Monge

Ropes

By Claudia Peña Claros

The Boy without an Arm

By Cristian Romero

Poetry

"COVID 19" by Laura Cracco

By Laura Cracco

Five Poems from Exilios

By Alejandro Oliveros

Five Poems

By Sergio Raimondi

Three Poems

By Cindy Jiménez-Vera

Five Poems

By Armando Romero

Essays

"Isthmus Zapotec Poetry and Hip Hop in Transit: A Remix" by Wendy Call

By Wendy Call

Criticism and Contemporary Literature: A Divorced Couple?

By Gisela Kozak

The Elementary Particles of Benjamín Labatut

By Pedro Pablo Guerrero

The West After the Rain: One Hundred Years from 1922

By Marcelo Cohen

Interviews

“The peripheral condition defines Bolivian literature”: A Conversation with Maximiliano Barrientos

By Maximiliano Barrientos

“More like Buster Keaton than Pablo Neruda”: A Conversation with Alejandro Zambra on Chilean Poet

By Alejandro Zambra

“Beauty Can Be Found in Everything”: An Interview with Fernanda Trías

By Adam Critchley

Indigenous Literature

Four Poems

By Miguelángel López (Vito Apüshana)

A Story and Three Poems

By Maria Clara Sharupi Jua

Chuqik’irawchaw / My Lovely Chuqik’iraw

By Ch’aska Anka Ninawaman

Translation Previews and New Releases

From Ischia

By Gisela Heffes

From Moldy Strawberries

By Caio Fernando Abreu

From World Literature Today

The Insolent Gaze of Chilean Poet Elvira Hernández

By Soledad Marambio

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: February 2022

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Visiones de María Magdalena by Juan Carlos Villavicencio

By Diego Alegría

Frontera cuir by Ingrid Bringas

By Vanesa Almada Noguerón

La palabra desnuda by Rafael Courtoisie

By Basilio Belliard

Maneras de parar el mundo by Melissa Sauma

By Valeria Muñoz

Muerte natural by Damsi Figueroa

By Darwin Rodríguez Suazo

El silencio es una bailarina by Geraldine Gutiérrez-Wienken

By Carmen Canet

Noema by Marina Irkalla

By Rosa Granda

Kauneus (la belleza) by Roxana Crisólogo Correa

By Wendy Castillo

Sobre la forma poética by Santiago Sylvester

By Alexis Romero

La novela boliviana: de Los deshabitados a Felipe Delgado (1959-1979) by Willy Óscar Muñoz

By Homero Carvalho Oliva

El dulce cretino de la calle by Mirna Estrella Pérez

By Rosa Vanessa Otero

Toques de son colorá by Adelaida Fernández Ochoa

By José Hoyos Bucheli

El resplandor de la derrota by Miguel Castillo

By María del Mar Escobedo

Fuera de lugar by Pablo Brescia

By Hernán Vera Álvarez

Saint-Ex by Rafael Anselmi

By Gerardo Castillo Guzmán

El tiempo que no consiente recorrerlo by Alfredo Armas Alfonzo

By Alfredo Chacón, Pip Ramshev

La ciudad en que no estás by Margarita Saona

By César Augusto López

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