Contemporary Venezuelan literature is largely the literature of migrant writers. For decades—and for various reasons—Venezuelan writers have sought to settle in various parts of the world, with the United States, Spain, and other Latin American…

This book is divided into two parts that function as mirrors that illuminate each other. The first offers a serious inquiry into the left in Latin America; the second proposes a close examination, based on very specific aspects, of the Venezuelan…

Casa de ciudad presents a cast of outsiders—trans people, AIDS patients, disillusioned communists, and film workers—inhabiting a crumbling city house. These raw, deeply human, and unflinching short stories confront the reader with the shared miseries…