Graywolf Press. 2025. 272 pages.This is not so much a review of Falsa guerra by Cuban author Carlos Manuel Álvarez as it is of False War, the English translation cre…
Natasha Wimmer
- New York. Riverhead Books. 2024. 240 pages. We are taught from a young age that history and fiction are two different epistemological categories. Simply, we are taught that one is a…
- Oakland, California. Transit Books. 2019. 150 pages. Gabriela Ybarra grew up in death’s shadow. Before she was born, her grandfather was kidnapped and executed by Basque separatists. When she was you…
- New York. Riverhead Books. 2016. 272 pages.The present, in part, is the continuous rewriting of past and future—the modification of historical narratives to suit a particular message or goal. In his n…
- Chris Andrews & Natasha Wimmer, tr. New York. New Directions. 2012. ISBN 9780811218153At first glance, Roberto Bolaño’s The Secret of Evil may read like a hastily assembled collection of…

