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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

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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