Photo of Chacarita cemetery Dario Ricardo / Stock.adobe.comSome mornings from my ground-floor study window I see a man pass by on a bicycle with a boy on the backseat behind him. Normally by then I’d…
COVER FEATURE
The City Issue: Buenos Aires
Photo of bus route in Buenos Aires by Carolina Jaramillo / Stock.adobe.comTaking all the buses of Buenos Aires, a writer on a mission makes the city his own. Around 2008 I made the unlikely decision t…
Photo of LGBTQ Pride March in Buenos Aires by Ari / Stock.adobe.comEach November, Buenos Aires’s Pride march proceeds down a ten-block stretch that is the “spine of Argentine history,” fulfilling Eva…
Photo of Once Quarter, Buenos Aires by Jordi Camí / Alamy.comVisiting the Jewish neighborhood of Once, a writer finds herself caught between a desire to escape the internet and a need to connect as sh…
Photo of Rivadavia by Jaay dev Singh / Unsplash.comBuenos Aires is many things, including a city for walking, snapping photographs, and writing poetry in notebooks while nibbling a medialuna in a coff…
Photo of Stadio Diego Armando Maradona by Stefano Tammaro / Stock.adobe.comReflecting on his love of football, Oliverio Coelho has an epiphany: some players on the pitch stand out, not just for their…
Photo by Ehud Neuhaus / Unsplash.comTime is an assassin. There are days that occur in the past. Today, for example, a January Monday in 2019, the sky stretched out like a blue sheet. Yesterday I saw a…
Photo by travelview / Stock.adobe.comTake a whirling tour of Buenos Aires’s secondhand bookstores and meet an array of eccentric reader types with porteño writer Matías Serra Bradford. A cinema transf…
Painting by Liza Martín, Untitled (2024), oil on canvas, 20x26cm.Twenty-five degrees Celsius at midday on the winter solstice: the collected humidity of an entire continent bears mercilessly, shameles…
Photo by nickalbi / Stock.adobe.comIn any discussion of Buenos Aires, it’s probably useful to start out by defining our parameters. For the rest of the world, “Buenos Aires” conjures images of tango d…
May 2024
With its latest city issue, World Literature Today showcases Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a cover feature that gathers nine porteño writers, guest-edited by Kit Maude. Additional highlights include the latest installments of the columns “Bearing Witness” and “Untranslatable.” + the book review section offers up the best new books from around the world, and interviews, reading lists, poetry, essays, and a postcard from Bordeaux make the May issue your perfect summer reading companion.