Argentina

Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy

Rahul Bery on Translating a Stylistically Innovative Work of South American Science Fiction

 
By Rahul Bery  February 5, 2025
Latin American Literature

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

By Ariel Dorfman  May 6, 2024
Forensics

In Argentina, How the Bones of the Dead Communicate With the Living

By Alexa Hagerty  March 16, 2023
Dictators

Those Who Were Left Behind by Argentina’s “Dirty War”

By Andrea Yaryura Clark  March 2, 2022
Women Writers

A Game of Cutouts: On Norah Lange’s Unconventional Narrative Experimentation

By Charlotte Whittle  May 5, 2021
Personal History

Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
Dictators

The Fall of Trump: On Presidents, Dictators, and Life After a Regime

By Francisco Goldman  November 12, 2020
Diaries

Ricardo Piglia’s Alter Ego on Epidemics of Violence in Argentina

By Ricardo Piglia  October 19, 2020
Soccer

Football is Everything (Which is to
Say Soccer)

By David Goldblatt  February 19, 2020
The Hub

Mariana Enríquez wins the Herralde Prize for a work of Gothic political horror.

By Aaron Robertson  November 7, 2019
On Borges

Were Libraries Borges’s Universe or the Other Way Around?

By Literary Hub  May 31, 2019
Novels

Beyond Babylon

By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 17, 2019
Profile

An Afternoon at María Gainza’s
Buenos Aires Home

By Nathan Scott McNamara  March 31, 2019
Excerpts

Oliverio Girondo’s Absurd Cosmopolitan World

By Harris Feinsod and Rachel Galvin  December 13, 2018
Conversations

Cover Reveal: Pola Oloixarac’s Forthcoming Novel is Watching You

By Literary Hub  November 20, 2018
Essay

Creating a New Tradition of Latin American Horror

By Mariana Enriquez  October 31, 2018
Excerpts

The Anxiety of the Pilot Upon Attempting to Land a Plane

By María Sonia Cristoff  October 19, 2018
Feature

The Self-Portrait Jorge Luis Borges Drew After Going Blind

By Emily Temple  August 24, 2018
Essay

From #MeToo to #WeStrike

By Liz Mason-Deese  March 8, 2018
Conversations

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

By Literary Hub  May 26, 2017
Craft

Julio Cortázar Teaches a Class on His Own Short Story

By Julio Cortazar  March 28, 2017
Excerpts

Writing on an Island at the End of the World

By Nell Stevens  March 17, 2017
In Memoriam

Carlos Fonseca on the Legacy of Ricardo Piglia

By Carlos Fonseca Suarez  February 10, 2017
Conversations

Samanta Schweblin on Revealing Darkness Through Fiction

By Bethanne Patrick  January 12, 2017
Translation

César Aira Makes the Impossible Possible

By Mark Haber  December 6, 2016
Excerpts

How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

By Ilan Stavans  September 2, 2016
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