Will H. Corral

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In addition to books on Monterroso, Vargas Llosa, Bolaño, Will H. Corral writes extensively about the Latin American novel. A regular contributor to WLT and Letras Libres, his comparative study Nueva cartografía occidental de la novela hispanoamericana (2025) was just published by Chile's Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales.

The Incoherence of Love: Arturo Fontaine’s Y entonces Teresa

October 9, 2025 Will H. Corral
Photo of Arturo Fontaine by Daniel Mordzinski / Courtesy of Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells In Y entonces Teresa (And then Teresa) (Catalonia, 2024), Arturo Fontaine (b. 1…
The West’s “Other” World Novel

January 2024
Will H. Corral
Even though the Latin American novel was never the West’s “Other,” the new Handbook published by Oxford University Press does a marvelous job of producing a sorely needed remapping of the continent’s…
The Marx Brothers Go to a Masked Ball: César Aira’s Lugones

July 15, 2021 Will H. Corral
César Aira / Photo by Nina Subin / Courtesy of New Directions A canonical writer of the fantastic and foundational modernista poet, the reactionary polymath Leopoldo Lugones (1874–19…