MARCH, 2025
In our thirty-third issue, we highlight two figures whose unique perspectives on the world of literature and the writer’s vocation deserve our attention: Gabriel Zaid of Mexico and José Donoso of Chile. Thanks to critic Christopher Domínguez Michael and our generous friends at Letras Libres, we share a cover dossier dedicated to Zaid—a “social engineer” as much as a literary critic, essayist, and poet—with a selection of his unmistakable texts from said magazine, available in English for the first time. Thanks to journalist and scholar Cecilia García-Huidobro, we also share an exclusive excerpt from Donoso’s as-yet unpublished diaries, likewise available for the first time in English, along with critical reflections on this seminal author’s work by Nicolás Bernales and Arturo Fontaine. This new issue also features writing in translation by Salvador Elizondo and José Lezama Lima, poetry in Quechua by Gloria Cáceres Vargas, previews of forthcoming books in translation from Gastón Fernández, Andrés Felipe Solano, and Carmen Boullosa, and much more.
