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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.
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Desire Is Instinct: Pilar Quintana in LALT

by Ingrid Luna López and Óscar Daniel Campo

This dossier consists of an interview and two essays. In the interview, Quintana identifies desire and animality as the great axes of her narrative. She has explored them through two main themes—sex and motherhood—and delved into the intensity, violence, and irrationality they enclose and unleash.

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
Painting by Agustina Fernández, 2021

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 Cristian 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
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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 Julie Dorrico
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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
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poetry

Five Poems

by Cristalina Parra

Letter to a Queen

by Santiago Elordi

Three Poems

by Santiago Sylvester
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Translation Previews and New Releases

From Almost Obscene 

by Raúl Gómez Jattin

From Blood Red 

by Gabriela Ponce
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Brazilian Literature

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

by Alex Sens
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Chronicle

Pulled Up

by Ricardo Montiel
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On Translation

Seeking Publisher: from Rain Comes at Night

by Guillermo Severiche

Seeking Publisher: from Fandelli

by Guillermo Fadanelli
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EDITOR'S PICK

Los regalos y las despedidas by Ricardo Montiel

  • by Izaskun Gracia Quintana
“Perhaps it follows that, as these texts suggest, we have never stopped being children. Perhaps we have never stopped being afraid, and the step into…

Volver a Shangri-La by Jorge Eduardo Benavides

  • by Gustavo Rodríguez
“His technique in this recent novel speaks to his talent as a narrator, but one aspect in particular stands out: his approach to readers as…

Campus by Antonio Díaz Oliva

  • by Keila Vall de la Ville
“This novel details the dark and uncomfortable side of university life in the Hispanic Studies and Spanish doctoral programs of the United States. It exposes…
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A Second Pair of Eyes: A Conversation with Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia

by Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Lorenza Garcia, Nick Caistor

Two Short Stories from The Things We Don’t Do

by Andrés Neuman

Clarice, Childhood, and Chickens

by Sylvia Georgina Estrada

The Passion According to G.H.

by Victoria de Stefano
Dossier: Women Poets of the Cuban Diaspora
Dossier: Women Poets of the Cuban Diaspora

Añoranzas/Yearnings: Women’s Poetry of the Cuban Diaspora (1990-2021)

by Indranil Chakravarty
This brief selection of works by five Cuban women poets is brought together by a common context that is as much personal as political. They were all born and educated in Cuba but migrated to different parts of the world between 1990 (the beginning of the period of scarcity called the “Special Period” following the collapse of the socialist world which triggered large-scale migration) and 2021 (marked by the public…
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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
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