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From the Editors: On the Proliferation of Posthumous Publication

The dead, we fear, will never have the last word on their unpublished works. So we turn our editorial energies to a bigger question: should they? [more]

Essay by The Editors of The Quarterly Conversation

Cormac McCarthy’s Paradox of Choice: One Writer, Ten Novels, and a Career-Long Obsession

Scott Esposito evaluates the complete works of one of America’s most highly regarded authors. In Cormac McCarthy, he finds an author obsessed with questions of free will and identity. [more]

Essay by Scott Esposito

Reaching One’s Promise: What Writers Need to Do to Last Ten Years

In 1938, Cyril Connolly wrote a book about what writers needed to do to see their work last for 10 years. Jeremy Hatch determines if his predictions were accurate, and how contemporary writers might see their work continue to be read. [more]

Essay by Jeremy Hatch

Notes on Juan Villoro’s El Testigo

Bolaño said he is “opening up the path of the new Spanish novel of the millennium.” Alvaro Enrigue called his book the great Mexican novel. Mauro Javier Cardenas investigates Juan Villoro’s untranslated novel El Testigo. [more]

Essay by Mauro Javier Cardenas

From El Testigo by Juan Villoro

El Testigo, currently unavailable in English, has been lauded as the “great Mexican novel.” Here chapter three of this book is translated by Chris Andrews. [more]

Essay by

Janet Frame Reframed

What is the difference between fiction and autobiography? Elizabeth Wadell looks at author Janet Frame’s new posthumous novel, too personal to publish in her lifetime, and considers how it compares to the source material as found in her celebrated autobiography. [more]

Essay by Elizabeth Wadell

Mario Vargas Llosa’s Carnival: Caricature in The War of the End of the World

Though the word caricature is often used to disparage poor writing, caricature also has its uses. Travis Godsoe shows how Mario Vargas Llosa uses caricatured characters to create a rich portrait of a unique rebel colony in his novel The War of the End of the World. [more]

Essay by Travis Godsoe

From The Museum of Eterna’s Novel

Long hailed as an avant-garde classic and precursor to Borges, The Museum of Eterna’s Novel will finally be available in English next January from Open Letter Books. We offer a preview of what’s to come. [more]

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