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Issue 24.

December,

2022

In LALT No. 24, we highlight Colombian writer Pilar Quintana, winner of the 2021 Alfaguara Prize, along with a dossier on the poetry and prose of Cristina Peri Rossi, winner of the 2021 Cervantes Prize. We also share interviews with Michelle Roche Rodríguez and Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Mapuche and Macuxi voices in our Indigenous Literature section, fiction by Brazilian writer Alex Sens, nonfiction by Ricardo Montiel, exclusive previews of upcoming books in translation by Raúl Gómez Jattin and Gabriela Ponce, a brand-new set of book reviews, and much more.

Cover photo by Carlos Zárrate.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: Festina lente or the Pleasure of Reading

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Pilar Quintana

Desire Is Instinct: Pilar Quintana in LALT

By Ingrid Luna López and Óscar Daniel Campo

Animality and Writing: A Conversation with Pilar Quintana

By Ingrid Luna López and Óscar Daniel Campo

From Subversion to Upholding the Status Quo

By Leonardo Gil Gómez

The (In)edible Wolf: Infidelity, Rape, and Other Violences in the Stories of Pilar Quintana

By Ruth N. Solarte-Hensgen

An Excerpt from The Bitch

By Pilar Quintana

Dossier: Cristina Peri Rossi

Cristina Peri Rossi: to Fight and Love in Words

By María José Bruña and Néstor Sanguinetti

The Peri Rossi Kaleidoscope

By Various Authors

Neither Sappho Nor Cervantes: Cristina Peri Rossi

By Rafael Courtoisie

The Abracadabra Stones of Poetry

By Gerardo Ciancio

“To split / is always to split in two”: some brief reflections on exile, love, fragmentation, and writing in the work of Cristina Peri Rossi

By Virginia Lucas and Natasha Tanna

INTERVIEWS

Michelle Roche Rodríguez: “Bodies that Hunger Can Also Aspire to Freedom”

By Claudia Cavallin

The Beat Spirit in Latin America: A Conversation with Laura Rubio León and Federico Barea

By Mariano Vespa

Darrel Alejandro Holnes: “I think of my language as the language of my experience”

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

Indigenous Literature

An Excerpt from Cherrufe: The Orb of Fire

By Mariela Fuentealba Millaguir

Helplessness

By Daniela Catrileo

Makunaima and the Gods who are Siblings

By Trudruá Dorrico

FICTION

The Sleep of Reason

By Oswaldo Estrada

Mares and Calves

By Julia Rendón Abrahamson

An Excerpt from Stag’s House

By Juana Moriel-Payne

POETRY

Five Poems

By Cristalina Parra

Letter to a Queen

By Santiago Elordi

Three Poems

By Santiago Sylvester

Three Poems

By Minerva Margarita Villarreal

BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

Animal Waiting Room (or 29 portraits of a generic afternoon)

By Alex Sens

CHRONICLE

Pulled Up

By Ricardo Montiel

ON TRANSLATION

Seeking Publisher: from Rain Comes at Night

By Guillermo Severiche

Seeking Publisher: from Fandelli

By Guillermo Fadanelli

Translation Previews and New Releases

From Almost Obscene 

By Raúl Gómez Jattin

From Blood Red 

By Gabriela Ponce

Book Reviews

El sitio del relámpago by Marta Jazmín García

By José Ygnacio Ochoa

Austral by Carlos Fonseca

By Enrique D. Zattara

Adriatic/Adriático by Gina Saraceni

By Raquel Rivas Rojas

Baltasar contra el olvido by Mauricio Koch

By Martín Cascante

El orden del Aleph by Gustavo Faverón Patriau

By Margarita Saona

Battles in the Desert by José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Katherine Silver

By César Ferreira


Treinta kilómetros a la medianoche by Gustavo Rodríguez

By Marcel Velázquez Castro

The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets by Nidia Hernández (ed.)

By Susan Smith Nash

Zihuatanejo: Una novelita tropical by José Bocanegra

By Fran Béjar

El tiempo suspendido entre tus manos by Gisella Ballabeni

By María Belén Milla Altabás

Los regalos y las despedidas by Ricardo Montiel

By Izaskun Gracia Quintana

Volver a Shangri-La by Jorge Eduardo Benavides

By Gustavo Rodríguez

Campus by Antonio Díaz Oliva

By Keila Vall de la Ville

Accidentes del ánimo by Gustavo Yuste

By Vanesa Almada Noguerón

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: To Mexico and Beyond

By LALT Team

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