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Issue 39

Issue 39.

September,

2026

In our thirty-ninth issue, we feature award-winning Uruguayan author Fernanda Trías, whose novels and short stories have earned her recognition as an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature, in a cover dossier including an exclusive interview and an excerpt from Trías’s Pink Slime in translation by Heather Cleary. We also look back in time and outside the limits of Latin America with a dossier dedicated to the new volume by Braulio Fernández Biggs, Robert Southwell: Jesuita, poeta y mártir, the first book ever written in Spanish on the life and legacy of Robert Southwell, the sixteenth-century priest and poet whose impact on English literature can still be felt to this day. This issue also features a special section on twentieth-century poetry from the Southern Cone with bilingual poems by Alfonsina Storni, Delmira Agustini, and Julio Herrera y Reissig, as well as reflections from Joaquín Castillo, Carlos Granés, and Pedro Henríquez Ureña, exclusive interviews, previews of new books in translation by Horacio Quiroga, Miriam Reyes, and Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza, and fiction by Ariana Harwicz, Rafael Gumucio, and María Teresa Andruetto.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

The Universe Is Our Birthright

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Fernanda Trías

Working with the Hidden Story: A Conversation with Fernanda Trías on Miembro fantasma

By Juan Camilo Rincón

Of Wounds and Absences: Fernanda Trías’s Miembro fantasma

By Luz Marina Rivas

Pink Slime, translated by Heather Cleary

By Fernanda Trías

Dossier: Robert Southwell in Latin America

Defeating Silence: The Recovery of Robert Southwell

By Nicolás Bernales

An Exemplary Life from Braulio Fernández Biggs

By Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt

Cinco poemas bilingües de Robert Southwell

By Robert Southwell

ESSAYS

Emil Cioran and Music

By Ismael Gavilán

Roberto Bolaño at 75

By Christian Jiménez Kanahuaty

Dwellers in Bewilderment: Forms of the Absurd in Antonio Di Benedetto

By Vanesa Almada Noguerón

writing for LALT

Victimhood and Redemptive Violence

By Carlos Granés

El afán europeizante

By Pedro Henríquez Ureña

Una multitud a oscuras

By Joaquín Castillo

INTERVIEWS

A Community to Survive Catastrophe: A Conversation with Andrea Chapela about Todos los fines del mundo

By Natalia Consuegra

“Time is an individual experience”: A Conversation with Juan Gómez Bárcena

By Eduardo Suárez Fernández-Miranda

“I threw myself into literary writing with tremendous irreverence”: A Conversation with Nona Fernández

By Adriana Pacheco

World Literature from WLT

Raw, Cooked, Drunk: The Visionary Reach of Everyday Words in Rumi’s Poetry

By Haleh Liza Gafori

On Translation

Shadow of a Shadow: The Double Sanitization of the Visceral Word

By Miaad Banki

“There are countless books I would have loved to translate”: A Conversation with Jordi Fibla Feito

By Eduardo Suárez Fernández-Miranda

POETRY

“Meography” and other poems

By Jeannette Miller

Tres poemas de La orilla del retorno

By Alejandro Sebastiani Verlezza

Three Poems from Odd Psalms

By Evodio Escalante

Poems from The Voice of Home

By Rosabetty Muñoz

Poems and Aphorisms

By Juan Carlos Galeano

BOOK REVIEWS

Las alas de la libélula de Alfredo Herrera

By Jorge Malpartida

Lithium by Malén Denis, translated by Laura Hatry and John Wronoski

By Alexa Cohen

RESEÑA FINALISTA:
El simulacro de los espejos de Vicente Battista

By Moisés Roberto Cárdenas Chacón

RESEÑA FINALISTA:
La jevita que no encajaba de Becky Plaza

By Yéiber Román

Se hace otoño de Susanne Noltenius 

By Luis Hernán Castañeda

El estilo de los elementos de Rodrigo Fresán

By Christian Jiménez Kanahuaty

Una casa sola de Selva Almada

By Ben Bollig

La palabra ciega de Benjamín Carrasco Bravo

By Archie Morales Romo

Denle de comer al olvido de Alejandro Susti

By Antonio Mejía Farje

Mares y halagos: variaciones poéticas de Carmen Verde Arocha

By Miguel Gomes

Copi de Guillermo Bravo

By Hernán Vera Álvarez

Todas estas mujeres. Cuentos (1986-2002) de Rubi Guerra

By Alberto Hernández

Vivir es resistir de Jorge Semprún

By Marco Ornelas

Montaigne, etc. de Isabel Zapata

By Carlos Rocha Gutiérrez

La vida no fue sueño de Juan Carlos Abril

By Pedro Ruiz Pérez

Paisajes del subsuelo. Mapas y pliegues de las culturas del petróleo en la Venezuela del siglo XX de Manuel Silva-Ferrer (ed.)

By Juan Pablo Gómez Cova

Indigenous Literature

Four Trilingual Poems from Because of the Silence

By Kalu Tatyisavi

“The Rain’s Heart Is Disturbed”

By Gloria Cáceres Vargas

“Perhaps”

By Baruc Martínez Díaz

“Sacred Woman” and “Flawless”

By Nadia López García

Brazilian Literature

Three Poems from Ninguém quis ver

By Bruna Mitrano

Five Sonnets from The Art of Killing

By Salgado Maranhão

Translation Previews and New Releases

Tales of Love, Madness and Death, translated by Diego Jourdan Pereira

By Horacio Quiroga

Sardine, translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin

By Miriam Reyes

JAWS [tiburón], translated by Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier

By Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza

Fiction

Pig

By Ariana Harwicz

Las adelantadas

By Rafael Gumucio

The Redemptorist

By María Teresa Andruetto

Editor's Pick: Poetry from the Southern Cone

Three Poems from Stone Pilgrims (1909) 

By Julio Herrera y Reissig

Three Poems from The Empty Chalices (1913) 

By Delmira Agustini

A Selection from Poems of Love (1926)

By Alfonsina Storni

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