FICTION
EL DOC: a short story // Bennington Review
ESSAYS & PROFILES
THE DESCENDANT: on reckoning with the legacy of my great-grandfather, Mariano Iberico Rodríguez // Virginia Quarterly Review
BAD PAPERWORK: on being a good immigrant in the age of Trump // Popula
OVERLOOKED: an overdue obituary for Clarice Lispector // New York Times
CLOSED STACKS: on automation in the library // Popula
LITERATURA DEL FRACASO: on ‘minor classics’ in Latin American literature // Lit Hub
TIME SERVED: a dispatch from a Philadelphia criminal court // Popula
THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN OF THE ANDES: on the man who translated Don Quixote into Quechua // Words Without Borders (Em Português)
BRAZIL’S MALAISE: on the Brazilian impeachment crisis // Public Books
STUCK IN SANCTUARY: on Javier Flores’ confinement in a Philadelphia church basement // Dissent
BOLAÑO’S CHILDREN: on the new Latin American literary horror movement // Paste
THE PROFESSOR AND THE PUEBLO: is Peter Nabokov’s work on Acoma Pueblo scholarship or theft? // Santa Fe Reporter
DISAPPOINTMENT CITY: on Roberto Arlt’s 1930 trip to Rio de Janeiro // Ploughshares
REVIEWS
HIS NAME WAS DEATH by Rafael Bernal (trans. Kit Schluter) // The Nation
HARSH TIMES by Mario Vargas Llosa (trans. Adrian Nathan West) // Foreign Policy
TWILIGHT ZONE by Nona Fernández (trans. Natasha Wimmer) // The Nation
HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor (trans. Sophie Hughes) // The Nation
I HOTEL by Karen Tei Yamashita // The Nation
CHILDREN OF THE LAND by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo // Vanity Fair
WRITING TO SAVE A LIFE by John Edgar Wideman // Paste
HOPE IN THE DARK by Rebecca Solnit // Paste
SUDDEN DEATH by Álvaro Enrigue (trans. Natasha Wimmer) // Quarterly Conversation
THE ILLUSIVE EYE: Latin American Op-Art at El Museo del Barrio // Artsy
ACTING OUT: A Symposium of Indigenous Performance Art in Santa Fe // Artsy
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN by Lucia Berlin // Santa Fe New Mexican
INTERVIEWS
THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on not writing another DACA memoir // Guernica
THE DOLPHIN LETTERS: Saskia Hamilton on Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell // Vanity Fair
THE BAD SIDE OF BOOKS: Geoff Dyer on D.H. Lawrence // Vanity Fair
SEEING PAST THE MIRROR: Ottessa Moshfegh // Paste
NEVER CAUGHT: Erica Armstrong Dunbar // Paste
CREATE DANGEROUSLY: Edwidge Danticat // Americas Quarterly
DISPATCHES
“Brazil on Strike,” Dissent, May 2017.
“A Year Later, Brazil Town that Spawned Zika Struggles with Virus,” USA Today, November 2016.
“What’s Left for Brazil?” Dissent, October 2016.
“Peru’s Rising Democratic Left,” Dissent, August 2016.
“Peru Tries to Adapt to Dangerous Levels of UV Radiation,” Newsweek, March 2016.
“The New Office Politics: Funding Your Boss’ Political Causes,” Reuters, May 2015.
“‘Ethical Gold’ Aims to Curb Mining’s Toll in South America,” Reuters, March 2014.
“In Sweatshops, the ‘Brazilian Dream’ Goes Awry,” Reuters, September 2013.