Julia Kornberg

Julia Kornberg’s first novel, Atomizado Berlín, will be published in English in December. (September 2024)

The Basement Tapes

At the end of his life, Reinaldo Arenas dictated his posthumously published memoir into a recorder. The newly unearthed tapes reveal a writer working beyond his mythology.

September 21, 2024

Strangers in the City

In Seven Empty Houses, the Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin revives the rioplatense short story tradition, which was born at the turn of the century and reached a peak during the Latin American Boom.

Seven Empty Houses

by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

December 7, 2023 issue

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