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“All American abduction stories are alike,” declares Aura, formerly a professor of Latin American literature and now one of the dozens of people abducted⎯ snatched, caged, shipped away⎯ over the course of this novel (for lack of a better word), in which every brief chapter features a miniature tragedy of separation, violent and heartbreaking, and yet each also offers some kind of talking cure, some gab-fest, though rarely face to face, rather via phone or chatbot, and in th...

Suzanne Jill Levine When you read Latin American literature in English, there’s a good chance you’re reading a translation by Suzanne Jill Levine, who has

The Latin Boom writers failed to appreciate the work of fellow novelist Manual Puig, who wrote about housewives and homosexuals.

The Nobel laureate is a master of the short novel – but none of them rivals Septology, an 800-page, single-sentence masterpiece

How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region.

Norwegian author Jon Fosse took home this year's honor for his life's work of powerful novels and plays, and Deep Vellum is one of the few publishers of his work in English.

Sorry, New York. The largest U.S. publisher of literature in translation, plus a thriving global books scene, resides in the Metroplex.

(1) ARE THESE YOUR FAVORITE SPOILERS? “Doctor Who's Alex Kingston on hiding River Song's biggest spoiler” at Radio Times. Beware spoilers. Further warning: the one excerpted below is not the “biggest spoiler” referred to in the headline. "She's not a companion, she's a wife!" Alex Kingston is quick to correct about her beloved Doctor Who character River Song.

On Keith Waldrop. Keith Waldrop is a quiet major poet, a major poet of quiet. His accomplishment is difficult to describe because his work refuses, in Bartleby-like fashion, the twin traps of impassivity and affectation: “On my one hand, / stasis – on the / other, striving for effect.” In one of his very few […]

At first glance, it may seem like an odd analogy to compare Mara Sy-Coson and her new publishing venture to a gunslinger or sheriff in an Old Western. However, when you consider the similarities, the analogy becomes more apt.