ON January 20 1971, a public holiday in Brazil, former congressman Rubens Paiva was arrested at his Rio de Janeiro home by agents of the military dictatorship. He was tortured and murdered; his body w...

The unsolved murder of a young girl in Argentina sends shockwaves through generations of a religious family.

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“Maia has charted her own literary territory,” writes critic Anderson Tepper in his review of Ana Paula Maia's "Bury Your Dead."

“Maia has charted her own literary territory,” writes critic Anderson Tepper in his review of Ana Paula Maia's "Bury Your Dead."

Ana Paula Maia Translated by Padma Viswanathan ​​​ A roadkill crew in rural Brazil finds the wrong kind of body. Edgar Wilson has left behind his job as a stunner at the slaughterhouse. He n...

Gustavo Rodríguez Translated by Daniel Hahn ​​​ Friendship makes life worth living, and worth ending too. Eufrasia Vela is a caregiver—it’s not just her job. But when she begins working w...

A roadside depot grinds animal carcasses while human corpses wait on a morgue van that never starts. Dignity falls to whoever will carry a body.

Rosa (Down with Gargamel!) spins a stimulating and experimental dystopian tale about a revolutionary telepathic network that for...

The death of a daughter 30 years ago has repercussions that roll on into the present for the family at the heart of Claudia Piñeiro's new novel, Cathedrals

I met Luis Othoniel Rosa (b. 1985) as a student of Latin American literature ten years ago. As a professor, and later on mentor and colleague, he showed me how academia might function as a creative la...

By Cory Oldweiler

Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro is a brilliant tale that explores misogyny, religion, desire, and complex familial ties.