Photo of Chacarita cemetery Dario Ricardo / Stock.adobe.com
Some 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…
COVER FEATURE
The City Issue: Buenos Aires
Photo of bus route in Buenos Aires by Carolina Jaramillo / Stock.adobe.com Taking all the buses of Buenos Aires, a writer on a mission makes the city his own. Around 2008 I made the unlikely deci…
Photo of LGBTQ Pride March in Buenos Aires by Ari / Stock.adobe.com Each November, Buenos Aires’s Pride march proceeds down a ten-block stretch that is the “spine of Argentine history,” fulfilling…
Photo of Once Quarter, Buenos Aires by Jordi Camí / Alamy.com Visiting the Jewish neighborhood of Once, a writer finds herself caught between a desire to escape the internet and a need to connect…
Photo of Rivadavia by Jaay dev Singh / Unsplash.com Buenos Aires is many things, including a city for walking, snapping photographs, and writing poetry in notebooks while nibbling a medialuna in a…
Photo of Stadio Diego Armando Maradona by Stefano Tammaro / Stock.adobe.com Reflecting on his love of football, Oliverio Coelho has an epiphany: some players on the pitch stand out, not just…
Photo by Ehud Neuhaus / Unsplash.com Time 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…
Photo by travelview / Stock.adobe.com Take a whirling tour of Buenos Aires’s secondhand bookstores and meet an array of eccentric reader types with porteño writer Matías Serra Bradford. A ci…
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, sha…
Photo by nickalbi / Stock.adobe.com In 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 ta…
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.