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"Kafka's Leopards" by Moacyr Scliar [25 Days of the BTBA]

As with years past, we’re going to spend the next week highlighting the rest of the 25 titles on the BTBA fiction longlist. We’ll have a variety of guests writing these posts, all of which are centered around the question of “Why This Book Should Win.” Hopefully these are funny, accidental, ...

"Kafka's Leopards" by Moacyr Scliar [Read This Next]

This week at Read This Next we’re featuring Kafka’s Leopards, a short book by celebrated and prolific Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar that’s translated from the Portuguese by Thomas Beebee and forthcoming from Texas Tech University Press. This book is one of strange misunderstandings, attributions of vital ...

The Fish Child

Here are four things you should know about The Fish Child: 1.) The novel is sensual, crude, vibrant and unyielding. 2.) The protagonists, Lala and Guayi, are the sort of characters who make dangerous, fascinating mistakes. 3.) Puenzo, born in Buenos Aires, directed a film adaptation of The Fish Child that premiered in ...

Latest Review: "The Fish Child" by Lucia Puenzo

The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Sara Cohen on Lucia Puenzo’s The Fish Child, which is translated from the Spanish by David William Foster and available from Texas Tech as part of The Americas series. We’ve written about The Americas series before, but if you’re not already ...

Let Us Now Praise Texas Tech's "The Americas" Series

Now that the 8th book in the Americas Series from Texas Tech has arrived, it seems like an opportune time to bring some attention to Irene Vilar’s exciting project. Irene used to run this series out of the University of Wisconsin Press back in the early 2000s, but after leaving and writing a memoir (Impossible ...