Will H. Corral

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In addition to books on Vargas Llosa and Bolaño, Will H. Corral’s work on the Spanish American novel includes Los novelistas como críticos (2 vols., 1991, with Norma Klahn), Cartografía occidental de la novela hispanoamericana (2010), and The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolaño and After (2013, co-author). He has been writing reviews and essays for WLT for nearly forty years. His Nueva cartografía occidental de la novela hispanoamericana is forthcoming.

The West’s “Other” World Novel

January 2024
Will H. Corral
Even though the Latin American novel was never the West’s “Other,” the new Handbook published by Oxford University Press does a marvelous job of producing a sorely needed remapping of the continent’s…
The Marx Brothers Go to a Masked Ball: César Aira’s Lugones

July 15, 2021 Will H. Corral
César Aira / Photo by Nina Subin / Courtesy of New Directions A canonical writer of the fantastic and foundational modernista poet, the reactionary polymath Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938) was…