Advice from a Nobel prizewinner
In 1981, Peter H. Stone of The Paris Review sat down with Gabriel García Márquez in his studio in Mexico City to discuss the art of...
The path not taken
Carlos is just three months shy of his fourteenth birthday when the term “unrequited love” is first explained to him. ‘It is a love that...
A lesson in loss
Miguel and his family spend months at the hospital, at least to a five-year-old it feels like months; maybe in reality it is only a few...
Under-bums & half-asses: life as a bilingual writer
I discovered a new word in English the other day. It’s something I’ve known for ages in Spanish. Now, I finally know it in my mother...