James Richie details the process of bringing Mexican poet Víctor Cabrera’s recent chapbook «A Village Devastated by Godzilla» into English in this cinematic translator’s note.
Bringing Godzilla to the Village and Other Devastations
Following Threads and Leaving Traces (Part 2)
In Part 2 of their conversation, Breon Mitchell and Chris Clarke discuss further strategies for maintaining translation archives so as to ensure their usefulness and durability.
The Absent Neighbor
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado introduces readers to his Critical Mexican Studies series and reflects on the challenges of publishing the types of scholarship it features.
A Garden of Earthly Delights and Bodily Horrors
Georgina Fooks reviews Ave Barrera’s novel «The Forgery», translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers, with particular attention to the book’s sensory (and sensational) aspects.
Motherhood is an Earthquake
Helen Zuckerman welcomes us into the nonlinear temporality and the rich canon of artistic/maternal predecessors of Jazmina Barrera’s seismic book on pregnancy, «Linea Nigra».
In Flight, In Flux
Alexandra Tilden reviews Julia Sanches’s translation of Mariana Oliver’s Migratory Birds and lays bare the broad political implications of seemingly subtle linguistic choices.
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