David Gallagher | The New York Review of Books

Akin to Conrad in Colombia

Lovers on All Saints’ Day

by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

Reputations

by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

October 27, 2016 issue

The Subtle Minds of Santa Fe

La Grande

by Juan José Saer, translated from the Spanish and with an afterword by Steve Dolph

November 20, 2014 issue

Stories from Pinochet’s Prisons

La Vida Doble

by Arturo Fontaine, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

Ways of Going Home

by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

March 6, 2014 issue

Literary Life in Cuba

November 7, 1968 issue

The Literary Life in Cuba

Tres tristes tigres

by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Paradiso

by José Lezama Lima

Explosion in the Cathedral

by Alejo Carpentier

Writers in the New Cuba

edited by J.M. Cohen

Inconsolable Memories

by Edmundo Desnoes, translated by David Gallagher, with Foreward by Jack Gelber

A Candle in the Wind

by Juan Arcocha

The Twelve

by Carlos Franqui, translated by Albert Teichner

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May 23, 1968 issue

Letter

Literary Life in Cuba

November 7, 1968 issue