Magdalena Edwards is a writer, actor, and translator from Spanish and Portuguese. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at UCLA's Latin American Institute and an Artist in Residence at Highways Performance Space. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, The Paris Review Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, Full Stop, The Point, London Review of Books, The Millions, Rattle, The Critical Flame, and Chile’s leading newspaper, El Mercurio. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and a BA in Social Studies from Harvard. More at www.magdalenaedwards.com and on Twitter @magda8lena and Instagram at @msmagda8lena
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Benjamin Moser’s Pulitzer Prize for Biography Is a Travesty
For two distinct yet intimately related reasons, we were appalled when we learned that Benjamin Moser had won the Pulitzer Prize ...
Benjamin Moser and the Smallest Woman in the World
Magdalena Edwards tells of her experience with Benjamin Moser, author of the forthcoming “Sontag: Her Life and Work.”...
Chile’s September 11: Marking the 40th Anniversary of Pinochet
This article was translated from Spanish by LARB Contributing Editor Magdalena Edwards. The original Spanish edition is included below. WE ...
Brazil: The Ground Shakes in the Country of Inequalities and Paradoxes
Rebellion in the streets, social media, and progress....
The Cosmopolitanism of the Poor
An essay from "Cosmopolitanisms," edited by Bruce Robbins and Paulo Lemos Horta...
Radio Hour: Clarice Lispector, Harry G. Frankfurt, and “Maybe Connect”
Acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, Harry G. Frankfurt's 'On Inequality,' and the similarities between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Elena Ferrante....
Killing Fiction Meets the Medea Impasse: On Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” and “Medea”
"Outline" marks the threshold between Cusk’s memoir "Aftermath," where she ruminates on her marriage and its dissolution, and her take on Euripides’s "Medea."...
“We Are a Bunch of Remittance Addicts”: An Interview with Imee Marcos, Governor of Ilocos Norte, Philippines
An interview with Imee Marcos, Governor of Ilocos Norte, Philippines....
A Conversation with Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita About “Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America”
An exclusive interview with renowned poet and translator Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita, recipient of the Chilean National Prize for Literature...
Unmentionables
The theme of male friendship is virgin territory for Rush, but the basic framework of the protagonist-couple and their idioverse is a Rushian staple....
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