This book doesn’t set out to confirm anything the reader hasn’t already suspected—but it does so from an unexpected angle. What is a diary when it exceeds its own form? And what is a novel when it resists being one? It is not an intimate diary,…

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…

A traffic accident and a hit-and-run will unleash situations worthy of an existential thriller. Álex Kantor thus begins a journey to the arid landscapes of the Gulf of Cariaco; a journey toward his memory, his conscience, and his damnation. There, he…

Outside Texts is a collection of poems that interrogate themselves, the Spanish language, the poetic self, and the author's personal geographies within and outside of Venezuela and Argentina. Animating the texts in this book is the experience of…