There will be a series of launch events for the spring issue of REVIEW: Latin American Literature & Arts, which I Co-Guest Edited with Ksenija Bilbija. The theme is Beyond Violence: Toward Justice, and includes work by, among others, Patricio Pron, Luisa Valenzuela, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Yuri Herrera, and Alicia Borinsky, who will all be…
In the heart of the scrubby south side of Buenos Aires, in the old working-class neighborhood of San Telmo, whose brothels gave rise to the tango, an active little plaza is dedicated to Rodolfo Walsh — crusading journalist, human rights hero, and victim of Argentina’s “Dirty War” dictatorship that between 1976 and 1983 “disappeared” some…
The international human rights community lost a hero in Rabbi Morton Rosenthal, who died, in New Jersey, on Saturday, January 12. During the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), Morton faced down resistance from numerous establishment corners to bring aid and succor to the families of gentile as well as Jewish desaparecidos. As Director of the Latin…
Recent Translations published include a sonnet and prose excerpt from Salvador Novo’s Pillar Of Salt: An Autobiography With Nineteen Erotic Sonnets (forthcoming from University of Texas Press, Fall 2013), in WordsWithoutBorders.org, June 2012; and Griselda Gambaro’s prose fiction, “The Lady with the Lapdog,” in Paragrafiti, a literary and arts journal published in Tehran, July 2012.
“The women giving birth, whom I respect as mothers, were militants…in the machine of terror. Many used their unborn children as human shields.” With these words, Jorge Rafael Videla —convicted on July 5, 2012 for masterminding the “systematic and general practice of child-stealing” during Argentina’s “Dirty War (1976-83)–defended himself, in a federal courtroom packed with…