Tundra pressure: Antarctic scientist turns on colleague who kept revealing book endings
It was a scene that started mundanely – and by the end, could have been lifted from The Thing. At a remote research centre on King George’s Island in Antarctica, over 500 miles off the coast… Read more »
We asked, “Is it possible to make a team of soccer players with famous writers’ surnames from this year’s World Cup?” and the answer is “Yeah, kinda!”
As you may have heard, the World Cup started yesterday in Russia. The soccer World Cup. You know, the round ball? The one that isn’t basketball, football, or baseball? The… Read more »
Knox Professor publishes first-ever anthology of Quechua poetry
Last December, we reported that the Peruvian television station TV Peru was launching its first-ever program in Quechua, “the most widely spoken autochthonous language in Peru, with millions of speakers also… Read more »
On sale today: The Subsidiary by Matías Celedón
Author Matías Celedón began to imagine The Subsidiary when he found an old-school set of office stamps at the closing sale of a library in Santiago, Chile. Slowly, in marked contrast to… Read more »
Chilean government announces definitively that Pablo Neruda was murdered, maybe
In 2011, Manuel Araya, Pablo Neruda’s driver, told the Mexican magazine Proceso that—as we reported—it was not prostate cancer alone that killed the Nobel Prize-winning poet in 1973. No, Araya… Read more »
Chilean judge orders police to find mysterious man who may have killed Pablo Neruda
On Saturday, a Chilean judge ordered police to find the man who may have poisoned Pablo Neruda, two months after the poet’s body was exhumed and nearly forty years after… Read more »