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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).
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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