A few months ago, I started writing an essay I thought would be about reading non-fiction in translation, and landed somewhere else entirely (here’s to crying in public)

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Mariana Enriquez’s fiction is crowded with characters hovering between the living and the dead.”

Doing a little archival research this week and am always delighted to find the odd piece of scrap paper, covered in doodles, filed and stored for posterity

Let’s try this again.