Ruben Reyes Jr.

Aug 19, 2024 | lithub.com | Ruben Reyes Jr.

The streets in Iowa City are too dark. You walk down Church Street, wishing there were more light posts. Kirsten says she’s been trying to write a Choose Your Own Adventure story. Growing up, you loved flipping through the pages of a book out of order, so the challenge is appealing. Article continues after advertisementDuring the bleakest months of the Trump presidency, you’ve been writing stories about Salvadoran children.

Jun 19, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Ruben Reyes Jr.

Aug. 2024. 288p. Mariner, $28 (9780063336278). REVIEW. First published August 2024 (). In every iteration, Salvadorans rewrite the narrative in this jewel-like collection from Reyes where past and future collide.

Jun 14, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Ruben Reyes Jr.

The Spanish ships leave their docks, but there is no crash landing, no savior knocking at the isthmus’s shore—only civilization as it was and continues to be. A tempest thrashes La Niña around as men fall off her sides in a choir of shrieks and prayers. An empire-sized wave swells and crashes down on La Pinta, splintering her cork-oak frame and pine planks. The Santa Maria sinks, full of salty-sweet water, until she sits on the ocean floor. Bottom-feeders nibble on dead Spaniards’ skin.

Jun 14, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Dawn Martin |Lidia Yuknavitch |Lena Valencia |Ruben Reyes Jr.

NO. 168 Summer 2024 ISSUE Arlene Shechet introduces bold color to “big sculpture.” Jeffrey Gibson brings an Indigenous road show to the US Pavilion in Venice. A new story from Lidia Yuknavitch. Poems by Dawn Lundy Martin. Plus, reflections on recent releases from Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Ryan Chapman, Tracy O’Neill, and Tashi Wada—and so much more. ALL ISSUES Support BOMB's mission to deliver, publish, and preserve the artist's voice.

May 16, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Yoko Tawada |Dinaw Mengestu |Aysegul Savas |Ruben Reyes Jr.

Yoko Tawada, trans. from the German by Susan Bernofsky. New Directions, $14.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3487-0Tawada, whose novel The Emissary won the National Book Award for Translated Literature, delivers a poignant ode to artistic inspiration.