Issue 3 · Buenos Aires
- Editor’s Note
The Chaos of Memories
“The city has to be conjured anew every day through sheer resolve.”
- Fiction
The Old Man in the Garden
by Ana María Shua
“The details of his first years had been erased, as if life had begun the day he set foot on American soil.”
- Memoir
My Buenos Aires of Tough Guys and Immigrants
by Ricardo Feierstein
“The five Jews in the school attended a special class in Morality.”
- Fiction
The Closed Coffin
by Marcelo Birmajer
“Nobody knows why people commit suicide—or why we want to live.”
- Poetry
by Luisa Futoransky
- Essay
Reading Borges in Jerusalem
by Ilan Stavans
“Throughout his life, he had been looking for the Jewish link that would make him happy.”
- Interview
A Conversation with Jorge Luis Borges
“I hope to be totally forgotten. I believe this is death.”
- Portfolio
Good Memory
by Marcelo Brodsky
“The history of a family is always moving forward and back.”
- Poetry
by Mirta Rosenberg
- Fiction
Here (There)
by Mariano Siskind
“Everything that once stood for El Abasto is now a distant memory—even her.”
- Poetry
by Alejandra Pizarnik
- Interview
A Conversation with Osvaldo Golijov
“Anarchy is always lurking in Argentina.”
- Poetry
Hit
by Tal Nitzan
- Fiction
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
by Rodrigo Fresán
“My mother says I was driven crazy by a Walt Disney film.”
