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Writing

Essays

 

Words Without Borders

Roll Call of Abandoned Languages  My language promiscuity and everything it says

The Thrill of Reading Obliviously Translations, comp titles, and reading Anne Frank

 

Electric Literature 

What to Read…​​When You are Infatuated (Valentine’s Day reading of Leesa Cross-Smith, Alexander Chee, Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir’s letters!) 

What to Read…When You Can’t Think About Anything about Anything but How the World Has Gone to Hell (Eduardo Galeano) 

What to Read…When You Are Going Through a Friend Break-Up (Elena Ferrante)  

Harper's Bazaar

Everything that's Important Personal essay on moving and shifting between minimalism and maximalism

 

 

Book Reviews

Southwest Review 

Yuri Herrera's Season of the Swamp

New York Times Book Review​​ 

Mia Alvar's In the Country

Interviews 

Electric Literature 

Justin Torres on Blackouts, his long-awaited (and sublime, tangential) sophomore novel, reading layers, and growing into a gay literary tío

Alejandro Zambra on what families are, fathers and sons, and literary pretensions in Chilean Poet (trans. by Megan McDowell)

Gabriela Wiener on her desire, polyamorous jealousy, and her decolonial fact-fiction remix Undiscovered (trans.by Julia Sanches) 

Kristen Radtke on why Americans are so lonely in Seek You 

Mariana Enriquez on The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (trans. by Megan McDowell), Instagram witches, the past’s horrors, and passing the blame for collective responsibility

Samanta Schweblin on screen intimacy, watching and being watched, and the genius of being old with technology in Little Eyes (trans. by Megan McDowell)  

Marie-Helene Bertino on putting birds through a narrative prism and what being ambiguous and opaque to others means in America in Parakeet

 

Laura Van den Berg on dying and her 100-supplement-a-day grandmother, empire striking through the American tourist, the most “Florida” of stories, and the ultimate Karen of I Hold the Wolf by the Ears

Yu Miri on her personal (and political) history with the Olympics Games in Tokyo Ueno Station (trans. by Morgan Giles)

E.J. Koh on translation-poetry-memoir remix, living while excavating the troubled past(s), and writing difficult love letters in The Magical Language of Others

 

Jenny Offill is a climate change doomer in Weather 

 

Mahir Guven on how Uber can go fuck itself, being French and being spoken of in the same breath as Michel Houellebecq upon his debut Older Brother (trans. by Tina Kover)

Sukutu Mehta’s immigration manifesto This Land is Our Land

Sandra Cisneros on books as medicine

Literary Translators Interviews

How They Became Literary Translators  

Literary Translators You Should Read 

More Literary Translators You Should Know

Literary Translators You Need to Know 

For more interviews, see here.

Harper's Bazaar

In Between Dreams Akwaeke Emezi on their debut novel, Freshwater

Studio Cookups Malay Ho on being beat maker for Frank Ocean, John Legend, Sam Smith, Zayn Malik, and Alicia Keys


Reading Lists

Electric Literature

For Books by Writers Over 60

For Unmissable Translated Novels

For London Novels by PoC

For New Orleans Book Beyond Mardi Gras

For Mexico City books After Watching Netflix’s Roma 

For Understanding of the U.S.-Mexico Border

From the Archive
In London and New York, I reported on fashion, art,  culture, money, and people for style.com, Grazia, ForbesChicago Tribune and others. Below are highlights:

Style.com

For the original "fashion blog" of Vogue, I covered people and Fashion Weeks in London and NYC for the site. Especially exciting was chatting to Bill Clinton about sustenance, being blown away by Oprah's luminosity at the New York Public Library Lions gala, and hanging out at Marc Jacobs' holiday parties. 

Harper's Bazaar 

Fashion Week Revealed Republished by San Francisco Chronicle, the local newspaper of my favorite American city in which I've not yet lived​​

Harper's Magazine
"Ground Control to My Imam" Translation of research. Best title of anything I have worked on
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