Swinging From a Chandelier

Melissa had something to tell me. We had arrived late at a party in the…

Tlaquaches

  i. I don’t recall the first time I saw a tlaquache, an opossum, though…

How to Search for Your Child

  Colinas de Santa Fe, Veracruz, México   Drive a six-foot metal rod into the…

War in Translation

In the last few months, I’ve moved houses no less than 35 times. I have…

The Girl with Two Brothers

for Sarah When I was twelve or thirteen, we lived in the house on Old…

Editor’s Note: Kitchen Table Translation

A few years ago the translator Bill Martin invited me to participate in The Bridge…

Tomfoolery by Hilda Hilst translated from the Portuguese

I got tired of readings, concepts, and data. Of being austere and sad as a…

The Desert Survival Series/ La serie de la sobrevivencia del desierto* (excerpt)

* The Desert Survival Series/La serie de la sobrevivencia del desierto was written as a…