Alastair Reid
Alastair Reid is a poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. He had been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1959 and has translated works by Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. Among his many books for children are A Balloon for a Blunderbuss, I Keep Changing, and Millionaires (all illustrated by Bob Gill), and Supposing (illustrated by Abe Birnbaum). In 2008 he published two career-spanning collections of work, Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations and Outside In: Selected Prose.
From the Review
January 15, 2004: You Can Go Home Again
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez,translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
November 29, 2001: When the Era Was an Era
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
May 6, 1999: Of Heaven and Hell (poem)
October 9, 1997: Report from an Undeclared War
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
February 2, 1995: Talking Cuba
Mea Cuba by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. translated by Kenneth Hall with the author
September 22, 1994: Sudden Death
June 23, 1994: Urn Burial
November 18, 1993: Troublemaker
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Dolores M. Koch
El Central translated by Anthony Kerrigan
The Ill-fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando translated by Andrew Hurley
Graveyard of the Angels translated by Alfred MacAdam
Old Rosa and The Brightest Star translated by Ann Tashi Slater, translated by Andrew Hurley
The Doorman translated by Dolores M. Koch
Singing From The Well translated by Andrew Hurley
The Palace of the White Skunks translated by Andrew Hurley
Farewell to the Sea translated by Andrew Hurley
July 18, 1991: Puerta De Golpe, Cuba (poem)
November 5, 1981: Climbing Macchu Picchu
Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner
November 6, 1980: In Memoriam, Amada
August 14, 1980: Two Poems by Heberto Padilla (poem)
October 25, 1979: Three Poems by Heberto Padilla (poem)
January 25, 1979: A History of Night (poem)
January 25, 1979: In Borges's Labyrinth
Jorge Luis Borges, A Literary Biography by Emir Rodriguez Monegal
November 23, 1978: Two Poems by Heberto Padilla (poem)
November 24, 1977: Four Poems by Jorge Luis Borges (poem)
October 3, 1974: Where Can Guillermina Be? (poem)
From New York Review Books
 | Ounce Dice Trice Ben Shahn illustrates this notebook of fabulous words: heavy words, squishy words, made up words, names for cats, whales, and houses. Says the author: "All the words here are meant to be said aloud, over and over, for your own delight." |
| The Winners [Cortázar] creates a language and a rhythm and sensuality as mysterious and terrible as Melville's but all in his own voice.... The Winners is a novel of ideas that challenges and disturbs the reader and enlarges one's sense of the intricate single human being. —William Goyen |
Books by Alastair Reid
Oases: Poems and Prose (1997)
An Alastair Reid Reader: Selected Prose and Poetry (1994)
Whereabouts: Notes on Being a Foreigner (1987)
Weathering: Poems and Translations (1978)