Dreamers Rise

I first studied Spanish in junior high school. There were, as I remember, four languages you could select: French, Spanish, German, and Lati...

In 1967, Gabriel García Márquez and several other Latin American writers concocted a plan for a volume in which each participant would under...

Two recent publishing events revisit the phenomenon of the so-called Latin American literary "Boom" of the 1960s, in particular hi...

In the 1980s, with his international reputation secured, Gabriel García Márquez agreed to write a series of brief syndicated essays that app...

Maritime disasters have long served as inspiration for popular songs and ballads, especially when the drama of the incident is multiplied by...

The translator Gregory Rabassa has died, according to a notice from the Associated Press. Rabassa was a professor for many years at Quee...

This short novel, published in 1981, is based on an incident that had taken place some 30 years earlier, when a young man named Cayetano Gen...

It's a bit disconcerting, perhaps, to reflect that the oldest story in this collection is now more than sixty-five years old. Gabriel ...

Who was, or is, Guy Fleming? He's not mentioned in Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger's By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design ,...

A brief but evocative passage from Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad is missing from Gregory Rabassa's US translation, ...