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…

Botella imposible is also a kind of micro bildungsroman, divided into three parts: the first, titled El niño siempre quiere huir (The child always wants to run away); the second, Era la primera vez que me dejaban salir solo… (It was the first time…