A total privilege to get to translate this banger of a story by Juan Ignacio Boido for the latest issue of SwR.

“I flipped ahead: it was the diary of every dream I’d ever had and every dream I would ever have.”

📌ICYMI, new from our spring issue: SHORTLY AFTER LEAVING IT ALL BEHIND by Juan Ignacio Boido (trans. Will Vanderhyden) southwestreview.com/volume-109-num…

happy birthday to dad!

W.G. Sebald would’ve turned 80 today🎈

Good time to re-up this essay by Federico Perelmuter on the Sebaldian in Latin American lit.

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“The mind—wielding the weapons of guilt, regret, and speculation—can be its own torture chamber.”

📌ICYMI, Wilson McBee reviews AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, the new novel by Mauro Javier Cárdenas out now via Dalkey Archive southwestreview.com/the-mind-of-al…

I love doing collage illustrations for magazines, btw. 😉Thank you, Southwest Review.

Dreams, jokes, espionage, a cameo by “the best Latin American writer of his generation”--all this and more in a new story from our spring issue 💥

Read SHORTLY AFTER LEAVING IT ALL BEHIND by Juan Ignacio Boido (trans. Will Vanderhyden)

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The new novel by Mauro Javier Cárdenas--AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS--“shows us that reckoning with the future is just as important as reckoning with the past.” ⌛️

Read Wilson McBee's review below & grab the book via Dalkey Archive southwestreview.com/the-mind-of-al…

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed Selva Almada’s 'Not a River,' translated by Annie McDermott, for SwR: buff.ly/3UXWgkj

“Starts weird and—to its great credit—gets weirder as it goes”

📌ICYMI, William Boyle rounds up his movie picks for May in the latest edish of I WAKE UP STREAMING southwestreview.com/i-wake-up-stre…

“A luxurious wisp of a novel that never wastes a word”

📌ICYMI, Cory Oldweiler reviews NOT A RIVER by Selva Almada (trans. Annie McDermott) out now via Graywolf Press southwestreview.com/a-humble-tribu…

Tonight in Dallas: no soap please

My movie column this month…

Stop doomscrolling and let William Boyle choose your next movie for you! Bill IS the algorithm! 🛜

Read the May installment of I WAKE UP STREAMING & surrender to the column. 🙇

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We’re excited to hear R&R editor Joseph Grantham read his own work!

In the meantime, read his short story, “Finder,” SwR: southwestreview.com/volume-108-num…

If you don't like cars with giant fucking flags sticking out their windows tearing ass down all the avenues blasting their jams we cannot be friends.

“Almada’s work is always deeply considered, but the elements at play in ‘Not a River’ work in unrelenting concert.”
In SwR, Cory Oldweiler reviews Selva Almada’s newly translated novel, “Not a River” - southwestreview.com/a-humble-tribu…

NOT A RIVER by Selva Almada (tr. Annie McDermott) is a 2024 Booker International finalist 🏆

Read our review below & grab the book, out today via Graywolf Press 💥 southwestreview.com/a-humble-tribu…

My introduction to Barry Gifford was as the writer behind Blue Velvet. I'd later discover that he was the engine behind the Black Lizard reprint line, books that introduced many future crime writers to the doomed prose of Jim Thompson and David Goodis.
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“I was thinking I would start leaving notes in the sinkhole. Or confessions. Things I’ve seen.”

📌ICYMI, read SINKHOLE by Mik Grantham (Disorder Press) from our spring issue southwestreview.com/volume-109-num…