Adrian Nathan West

Adrian Nathan West is a literary translator and the author of the novel My Father’s Diet. His latest translations include Alejo Carpenier’s Explosion in a Cathedral (2023) and Hermann Burger’s <emDiabelli (forthcoming).

Brick, Mortar, and Rot

The novels of the late, contrarian Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes have come to seem prophetic.

Cremation

by Rafael Chirbes, translated from the Spanish by Valerie Miles

September 22, 2022 issue

The Sleep of Reason

The Valley of the Fallen

by Carlos Rojas, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

May 23, 2019 issue

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