Brendan Riley is a teacher, writer, and ATA-certified translator of Spanish to English. His published translations include The Great Latin American Novel (2016) by Carlos Fuentes, Hypothermia (2013) by Álvaro Enrigue, and Caterva (2015) by Juan Filloy. His translation of Antagony (2022) by Luis Goytisolo received the 2023 Spain-USA Translation Award. Riley’s shorter translations and book reviews have appeared in ANMLY, Asymptote, The Believer, Best European Fiction, BOMBLOG, Bookslut, Drunken Boat, Little Star Journal, n+1, The New York Times, Numéro Cinq, Publishers Weekly, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Three Percent, and The White Review.
Brendan Riley
Articles
When Art Evolves, We Evolve
Brendan Riley reviews Cisco Bradley’s “The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront.”
Multifaceted Portals of Discovery: On Janet Sternburg’s “Looking at Mexico / Mexico Looks Back”
Brendan Riley reviews Janet Sternburg’s new collection of photographs, “Looking at Mexico / Mexico Looks Back.”
The Fluid Dynamics of Authorial Identity: On Douglas Robinson’s “The Last Days of Maiju Lassila” and His Transcreation of Volter Kilpi’s “Gulliver’s Voyage to Phantomimia”
Brendan Riley reviews Volter Kilpi’s “Gulliver’s Voyage to Phantomimia: A Transcreation by Douglas Robinson” and “The Last Days of Maiju Lassila — A Memoir-Novel About the White Terror Following the Finnish Civil War by J. I. Vatanen: A Pseudotranslation by Douglas Robinson.”
“Living Like a Word Between Parentheses”: On Julio Cortázar’s “Letters from Mom”
A key story from the seminal postmodern pentad “Las armas secretas” (1959), translated into English for the first time.
“Trickery Wrapped in Spittle Inside a Militia”: On Anne Garréta’s “In Concrete”
An absurdist psychosexual satire about how a father’s dangerous mania for mixing concrete.
Cold Scrutiny and Venomous Complicity in Lina Wolff’s “Many People Die Like You”
Brendan Riley reviews the new story collection by Lina Wolff, "Many People Die Like You," translated by Saskia Vogel.
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