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Nov 14, 2024 | 
yalereview.org | Mario Vargas Llosa |Natasha Wimmer
Dear Friend,I've been so busy in the last few days that I haven't written back as soon as I should have, but I've been thinking about your letter ever since I received it.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Natasha Wimmer
In 1973 a small anthology was published in Argentina, its cover featuring the head—in kaleidoscopic quintuplicate—of a Victorian gentleman sporting a Vandyke beard.
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May 15, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Adam Mars-Jones |Álvaro Enrigue |Natasha Wimmer
Culture shock seems too mild a phrase to describe the arrival of Europeans in South and Central America. In his 1976 maverick classic, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (its category speculative neurohistory, at a guess), Julian Jaynes proposes that, at the time Pizarro and his men reached them, the Inca didn’t have full mental autonomy but only ‘protosubjectivity’.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Natasha Wimmer
A grim silhouette looms on the prow of a ship: “Door-without-hinges…a meager frame with a set square, an inverted gable, a black triangle, and fixtures of cold beveled steel.” The year is 1794, and a guillotine is on its way to the island of Guadeloupe. In Alejo Carpentier’s riddle-like opening to his 1962 novel Explosion in a Cathedral, the Machine, as he calls it, yawns against the sky like some Deist mechanism or Dada readymade, an Old World construct haunting the New World.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
shelf-awareness.com | Susan Muaddi Darraj |Álvaro Enrigue |Natasha Wimmer |Jonathan Santlofer
Share with friends:Permanent Link:Behind You Is the Sea, Susan Muaddi Darraj's third work of fiction, is a shimmering composite portrait of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore. Across nine stellar linked stories, she explores the complex relationships among characters divided by--or connected despite--class, language, and traditional values. Each of the stories spotlights a particular character.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Álvaro Enrigue |Natasha Wimmer
(Author) (Translator) FORMAT Hardcover$28.00$26.04(English) Backorder (temporarily out of stock) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller $28.00 New Arundel Books of Seattle $34.05 New Magers and Quinn Booksellers From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
lmtonline.com | Álvaro Enrigue |Natasha Wimmer |Charles Arrowsmith
By Álvaro Enrigue; translated by Natasha Wimmer Riverhead. 240 pp. $28 - - - Nobody knows exactly what happened in the days and months after Spanish soldiers crossed the flower-trimmed causeway into Tenochtitlan to meet the Aztec emperor in 1519.
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Dec 31, 2023 | 
courant.com | Michael Schaub |Álvaro Enrigue |Natasha Wimmer
Book lovers, rejoice: it’s winter, which means the best possible excuse to stay inside with a blanket and read the night away. We’re also approaching the New Year, so if you’re planning on making a resolution to read more books in 2024, you’ll be glad to hear that publishers have you covered.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
baltimoresun.com | Álvaro Enrigue |Natasha Wimmer |Michael Schaub
Book lovers, rejoice: it's winter, which means the best possible excuse to stay inside with a blanket and read the night away. We're also approaching the New Year, so if you're planning on making a resolution to read more books in 2024, you'll be glad to hear that publishers have you covered.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
ocregister.com | Michael Schaub |Álvaro Enrigue |Natasha Wimmer |Hanif Abdurraqib
Book lovers, rejoice: it’s winter, which means the best possible excuse to stay inside with a blanket and read the night away. We’re also approaching the New Year, so if you’re planning on making a resolution to read more books in 2024, you’ll be glad to hear that publishers have you covered.
