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January 24, 2023
Megan McDowell
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New York. Penguin Random House. 2021. 208 pages. A DEAD BABY and her haunted great-niece open The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez’s collection of disquieting shor... -
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. 320 pages. MIDWAY THROUGH Carlos Fonseca’s new novel, an actress who has exchanged the limelight for a sprawling, subversive art project su... -
New York. Riverhead Books. 2020. 256 pages. IF LITTLE EYES had been written fifteen years ago, it would have been a work of fiercely imaginative science fiction. But in the a... -
New York. Catapult. 2019. 257 pages. Humiliation, Paulina Flores’s debut collection of short stories, beautifully translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, is a timely work that provides... -
New York. Riverhead Books. 2019. 240 pages. Following up on her 2014 novel Fever Dream (nominated for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize), Samanta Schweblin’s collection of short stories... -
Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2017. 110 pages. Camanchaca is a thick fog often seen along certain parts of the Chilean coast. Pushed along by the winds coming off the Pacific Ocean, it oft... -
New York. Penguin Books. 2016. 101 pages. Alejandro Zambra is a comprehensive reader of Bolaño and Perec, and surely of Natalia Ginzburg and Cesare Pavese, although he says one is dumb if worried abou... -
Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 157 pages. Seeing Red, by Chilean writer Lina Meruane, is an exemplary autobiographical novel. At a party in New York City, the main character, Lina, suffer... -
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780300176698 How to represent evil and torture bearably, enhance or put into perspective a lasting and frequently trite and polemical litera...
