Constantinople’s Jacket
In “Constantinople’s Jacket,” Álvaro Enrigue turns corporate certification into a sharp, absurd and brutal satire of workplace obedience. Translated by Diego Gómez Pickering, the story follows an office swallowed by ...
The Nest
On the sensitivities and cruel memories of youth.
The Crab’s Back
In “The Crab’s Back,” Natalia Toledo moves through Zapotec memory, childhood, pain, tradition and exile in a poem of startling bodily force. Translated by Diego Gómez Pickering, the poem asks ...
Pigeon
On a London Underground journey home from a clinic, a young woman sits beside her mother, caught between exhaustion, memory and the threat of being sent back to Mexico. When ...