Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University and translates from the Spanish. She has translated three Yuri Herrera novels, the third of which, Kingdom Cons, will be published in July 2017.
St. Louis. Dorothy Project. 2022. 280 pages.
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE readers finally have the chance to enter into the beguiling, menacing, and strangely poignant world that one of Mexico’s...
Oakland, California. Transit. 2021. 157 pages.
THE THEMES OF exile, immigration, and displacement have been recurrent in the literature of the Southern Cone since the region’s conflic...
Sheffield, UK. And Other Stories. 2021. 272 pages.
THIS COLLECTION BRINGS together three superb novellas by Yuri Herrera that had been previously published separately in English trans...
Boston. Mariner Books. 2020. 208 pages.
ANDRÉS BARBA’S A Luminous Republic is a hell of a little novel. The Spanish writer returns to one of his favorite types of people to w...
New York. And Other Stories. 2020. 120 pages.
I’D READ TWO NOVELS written by Yuri Herrera before A Silent Fury. They were both masterpieces of brevity. The restraint and insi...
New York. Other Press. 2020. 688 pages.
VICTOR DEL ÁRBOL served as a Catalan police officer for two decades ending in 2012, so one would naturally expect him, as with writers like Jos...
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When you are a pestilent being the world stops being pestilent. Or does it?
Each night Rafa stares at the vestibule in hatred until those in li...
London / New York. And Other Stories. 2015. 114 pages.
Makina is in charge of a small Mexican town’s telephone. A reliable messenger, she knows how to keep a secret and when to keep her mouth shut. Sh...