Adrian Nathan West

Adrian Nathan West is a literary translator and the author of the novel My Father’s Diet. His latest translations include Alejo Carpenier’s Explosion in a Cathedral (2023) and Hermann Burger’s Diabelli (forthcoming).

Under the Spanish Volcano

A recent exhibition at the Prado showcased artists engaging with the ferment and conflict of turn-of-the-century Spain.

November 24, 2024

Brick, Mortar, and Rot

The novels of the late, contrarian Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes have come to seem prophetic.

Cremation

by Rafael Chirbes, translated from the Spanish by Valerie Miles

September 22, 2022 issue

The Sleep of Reason

The Valley of the Fallen

by Carlos Rojas, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

May 23, 2019 issue

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