Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.

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• Alvaro Enrigue:

  I read everything from comics to magazines to fiction - I learned to read in English, years before

• Alvaro Enrigue:

  My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio

• Alvaro Enrigue:

  I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and no

• Alvaro Enrigue:

  Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide wha

• Alvaro Enrigue:

  History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of

• Alvaro Enrigue:

  Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because t

• Alvaro Enrigue:

  Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a

• Alvaro Enrigue:

  'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaube

• Alvaro Enrigue:

  In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tell

• Alvaro Enrigue:

  The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based