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Alejandro Zambra
A Literary Inheritance: On the Stories We Tell (and Don’t Tell) To Our Children
Alejandro Zambra: “All I have to do is sit beside you...and read to you the parts of the book that have words...”
By
Alejandro Zambra
| October 8, 2024
Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention
“He wanted to write, to give himself over to pure leisure, to the search.”
By
Alejandro Zambra
| May 2, 2022
Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century
Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Descendant of Kafka and Borges, True Skeptic of the Novel
By
Alejandro Zambra
| October 22, 2019
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller She is very good at creating a 'sense of anticipation…"