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Issue 33

Issue 33.

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 Thanks to journalist and scholar Cecilia García-Huidobro, we also share an exclusive excerpt from Donoso’s as-yet unpublished diaries, likewise available for the first time in English, along with critical reflections on this seminal author’s work by Nicolás Bernales and Arturo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.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: March 2025

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Gabriel Zaid

Curriculum vitae

By Gabriel Zaid

Gabriel Zaid: Social Engineer

By Enrique Krauze & José María Lassalle

Gabriel Zaid: Catholic and Modern

By Christopher Domínguez Michael

Intellectuals

By Gabriel Zaid

Exotic Quotations

By Gabriel Zaid

The Problem with Poetry You Can Understand

By Gabriel Zaid

Prizes, Lots of Prizes

By Gabriel Zaid

Alfonso’s Wheelbarrow

By Gabriel Zaid

Dossier: José Donoso

Pepe Donoso, or the Attempt to Steal the Fire of Creativity from the Gods

By Cecilia García-Huidobro

Excerpts from the Unpublished Diaries

By José Donoso

José Donoso: Biography of the Pájaro

By Arturo Fontaine

All the Lives of José Donoso

By Nicolás Bernales

ESSAYS

Conjunctions & Disjunctions: Octavio Paz and Severo Sarduy

By Indranil Chakravarty

From This Other Side

By Rodrigo Mariño López

The Melancholy Reader: Ricardo Forster and La biblioteca infinita: Leer y desleer a Borges

By Ismael Gavilán

INTERVIEWS

Poetry as Vital Need and Natural Language: An Interview with Piedad Bonnett on Los privilegios del olvido

By Juan Camilo Rincón

“For Borges, the adventure is always literary”: A Conversation with Ricardo Forster

By Marcelo Rioseco

"I wanted an almost agonizing character": A Conversation with Brenda Lozano

By Adriana Pacheco

World Literature from WLT

Making Things Brighter for the Next Generation: A Conversation with Oscar Hokeah

By Kyrié Eleison Owen

In Search of Ambivalent Horror: Mariana Enriquez on Rediscovering the Horrific in Everyday Injustices

By Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard

New Releases

Five Poems from Domestic Life, translated by Arthur Malcolm Dixon

By Marcelo Rioseco

Fiction

The Wilkinson’s

By Esther Cross

The Warrior

By Ednodio Quintero

Johnny’s Confession

By Carlos María Domínguez

Indigenous Literature

Two Poems in Quechua

By Gloria Cáceres Vargas

LALT CLASSICS

An Excerpt from Elsinore: a notebook

By Salvador Elizondo

Runaways

By José Lezama Lima

POETRY

Last But Not Definitive Return to Eden

By Sonia Manzano Vela

“I am from here” and other poems

By Manuel Iris

“In Rome” and other poems

By Alonso Ruiz Rosas

Two Poems

By Carlos Aníbal Alonso

Translation Previews and New Releases

Apparent Breviary, translated by KM Cascia

By Gastón Fernández Carrera

Gloria: A Novel, translated by Will Vanderhyden

By Andrés Felipe Solano

Texas: The Great Theft, translated by Samantha Schnee

By Carmen Boullosa

ON TRANSLATION

The Translation of the Poem

By Diana Bellessi

Seeking Publisher: The Spanish Department, translated by Emily Hunsberger

By Antonio Díaz Oliva

BOOK REVIEWS

RESEÑA FINALISTA
La vorágine: una edición cosmográfica de José Eustasio Rivera (edición de Erna Von der Walde y Margarita Serje)

By Andrea Padilla López

WINNING REVIEW
La traducción del mundo: Las conferencias Weidenfeld by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

By Hensli Rahn Solórzano

RESEÑA FINALISTA
No soy un robot de Juan Villoro

By Abraham Villa Figueroa

Textos recuperados de Teresa de la Parra

By Miguel Gomes

Propétides de Micaela Paredes Barraza

By Benjamín Carrasco Bravo

Una bella noche para bailar rock. Antología poética de Cristian Cruz

By Ismael Gavilán

Cuando callan los ríos de Jhak Valcourt

By Ronny Ramírez

La espesura del cielo de Viviana Paletta

By Noni Benegas

Barroco and Other Writings by Severo Sarduy, translated by Alex Verdolini, in collaboration with Iván Hofman

By Carlos Egaña

The Mistaken Place of Things by Gabriela Aguirre, translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin

By Mónica Teresa Ortiz

Invitación al viaje y otros cuentos inéditos by Julio Ramón Ribeyro

By César Ferreira


Villapapeles: Crónicas, ensayos y cuentos by Rossella Di Paolo

By Sandro Chiri

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