Katherine Silver

November 2018

False Calm: A Journey through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia by María Sonia Cristoff

By María Sonia Cristoff

Oakland, California. Transit Books. 2018. 225 pages. Far south of Buenos Aires lie the isolated steppes of Patagonia, Argentina’s southernmost region. For Argentines, Patagonia is considered a backwat...
September 2017

Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 by Julio Cortázar

By Julio Cortázar

New York. New Directions. 2017. 303 pages. When one thinks of Argentine literature, two names immediately come to mind: Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, usually in that order. I read them both as...
January 2016

One Out of Two by Daniel Sada

By Daniel Sada

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf. 2015. 88 pages. One Out of Two, by Daniel Sada, describes the lives of the Gamal twins, Constitución and Gloria. They live together, work together in their s...