Alberto Chimal

Photo: Fabien Castro

Mexican writer Alberto Chimal (b. 1970) is the author of the short-story collections Los atacantes, Grey, and Manda fuego (Colima Prize, 2014) and the novel La torre y el jardín (Rómulo Gallegos Prize shortlist, 2013). His most recent book is the children’s story La Distante (Cuatrogatos Foundation Award, 2019). He has a YouTube channel about books and creative writing.

Spring 2020

The Most Fragile Objects by Alberto Chimal

Weston, Florida. Katakana Editores. 2020. 126 pages. Near the end of Alberto Chimal’s The Most Fragile Objects, Latour, one of the protagonists, tries, much like all enlightened tyrants, to w...
Summer 2019

The Grand Experiment

Birds Watching, by Jenny Kendler, part of Indicators: Artists on Climate Change at Storm King Art Center, depicts one hundred eyes of bird species threatened or endangered by clima...
May 2018

A Periodic Table of Books

Iron, Uranium, Calcium, Gold, Praseodymium, Rubidium, Stontium, and Lead books. Illustration by Shayna Pond {CR} Chromium books that are all shiny surface....
July 2013

The Cities of the Ordered Chain

Alberto Chimal published these stories in Spanish as “An Alphabet of Twitter-Stories: A Study by Horacio Kustos” (@hkustos) in summer 2012. In a self-interview Chimal published...