"I think no one really chooses their tastes or their modes of expression: One day a language appears, and finding a la…"

"I grew up in a shadowy world where death was all around, but it was secret — disappearances have all the direct cruel…"

"to a large extent, this is the fear that I summon and depict, a feeling of simultaneous imminence and abandonment tha…"

"When I’m asked who I am, I say, “I am a Latin American.” The experience of being born and living in my country shaped…"

"I am a writer who works in her country, who never lived anywhere else, who maybe will one day, but whose life has tra…"

"I think what happened to people like me who grew up in the 80s and 90s is that slasher movies, Stephen King and Twin …"

"I understand the [notion of] respect but I don’t want to be complicit in any kind of silence; to be timid about horri…"

"One issue is that we’re used to reading in translation and other countries aren’t. We know more about your history th…"

"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."

"What seems to destroy world orders (at least in history) is not great power rivalry, but structural pressures that fr…"