Dani Carrasco was raised in Mexico City on a diet of Rosario Castellanos, Elena Poniatowska, and whatever their older cousins left lying around. They studied cultural studies at the UNAM and later completed a master's degree in literary theory. For the past seven years they have worked as a cultural critic and essayist.
Fatima Bhutto's new memoir investigates an abusive human relationship and a sustaining connection with the nonhuman. What does that say about us? Quite a lot.
A new study shows that sentence complexity in contemporary fiction has declined over the past century. The question isn't whether this is true. The question is what it means.
A recent essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books conducts what it calls a 'depressing literary autopsy' of prestige fiction's decline. But before the funeral, it's worth asking: prestige for whom?
Vila-Matas, Samanta Schweblin, Nona Fernández, Abad Faciolince, and Giralt Torrente are all finalists for the 2026 Aena Prize — a list that functions as a map of contemporary Spanish-language writing.
The first prize bearing Almudena Grandes's name has been awarded. Dani Carrasco thinks about what it means to put someone's name on a prize — and what Grandes meant.