Articles by

ROBERTO BRODSKY

Roberto Brodsky (b. Santiago de Chile, 1957). Writer, university professor, scriptwriter, critic, and author of op-eds. His novels include The Worst of Heroes [El Peor de los Héroes] (1999), The Art of Being Silent [El Arte de Callar] (2004), Burnt Forest [Bosque Quemado] (2008), Poison [Veneno] (2012), Chilean House [Casa Chilena] (2015), and Last Days [Últimos días] (Rialta Publishing House, 2017). He lived for over a decade in Washington, working as an associate professor at Georgetown University. He has lived for long periods in Buenos Aires, Caracas, Barcelona and Washington DC. In mid-2019 he moved to New York.

Sergio Chejfec: The Passenger Is Gone

“I will die in Paris with a rainstorm, / on a day I already remember.” I remembered...

Permanent Chile

There is a moment when the stomach turns. Towards the fifth or sixth chapter of the series...

Back to Fiction

There must be some secret connection between the end of the pandemic and the return of fiction...

From Ramallah to Recoleta

In the film Mayor (2020), by the American David Osit, there are at least two memorable scenes:...

The other pandemic

It was in the late 1970s when Roland Barthes alerted Europeans that fascism was not so much...