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The Zahir and I

By Andrew Hurley On September 4, 2012 · Add Comment
“The Zahir and I,” on the Borges website “Libyrinths: The Garden of Forking Paths,” http: //rpg.net/ quail/libyrinth/Borges/Zahir_and_I.html
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Our Lady of the Clouds

On September 1, 2012 By Andrew Hurley
Our Lady of the Clouds (“Nuestra Señora de las Nubes”), by Arístides Vargas, for Arts International, New York.
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“Blessèd are those whose lives unfold in wings”

On September 1, 2012 By Andrew Hurley
“Blessèd are those whose lives unfold in wings” (“Dichosos los que nacen mariposas”), by Federico García Lorca, as epigraph for Singing from the Well (see above).
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“Woman’s Body as the Frontier of Negotiation: The Construction of the Female Body in Biomedical Discourse Concerning HIV-Positive Women”

On September 1, 2012 By Andrew Hurley
“Woman’s Body as the Frontier of Negotiation: The Construction of the Female Body in Biomedical Discourse Concerning HIV-Positive Women,” Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera.
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If It’s Goya …It Has to Be Good, 75 Years of History

On September 4, 2010 By Andrew Hurley
  If It’s Goya It Has to Be Good [“Si es Goya tiene que ser bueno,” history of Goya Foods, Inc.], Guillermo Baralt, San Juan: Goya Foods, 2010.
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El Velorio No-Vela/ Martorell’s Wake

On September 1, 2010 By Andrew Hurley
El Velorio No-Vela/ Martorell’s Wake, Antonio Martorell, San Juan: Ediciones R.I.P., 2010.
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The Bible of Clay

On September 4, 2008 By Andrew Hurley
The Bible of Clay, a novel by Julia Navarro, New York: Bantam Books, 2008.
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Landscape of Clay

On September 4, 2008 By Andrew Hurley
Paisaje de Arcilla/ Landscape of Clay, a bilingual edition, Alejandro Aguilar, Santiago de Chile: Ventana Abierta, 2008.
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Landscape of Clay

On September 5, 2007 By Andrew Hurley
“Landscape of Clay,” Alejandro Aguilar, in New Short Fiction from Cuba, ed. Jacqueline Loss and Esther Whitfield, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern U. Press, 2007.
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25, Pablo Corral Vega

On September 5, 2007 By Andrew Hurley
25, Pablo Corral Vega (to celebrate his twenty-five years as a photographer for, among others, National Geographic Magazine), Quito, Ecuador: Latina, 2007.
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Fidel Castro: My Life

On September 4, 2007 By Andrew Hurley
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, Fidel Castro with Ignacio Ramonet, London: PenguinUK, November 2007; New York: Scribner’s, 2007/2008. Translator’s note for Fidel Castro: My Life (Penguin UK, Scribner’s, 2007). Many endnotes for the English edition.
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UNESCO General History of the Caribbean

On June 12, 2007 By Andrew Hurley
Thirteen articles for the six-volume UNESCO General History of the Caribbean, ed. Dr. Pieter Emmer, Inst. for the History of European Expansion (Leiden), et al (215,000 words total trans.): Alfredo Castillero-Calvo (Panama), “The City in the Hispanic Caribbean (1492-1650).” (24K words, 72 pp.) Jorge Ibarra (Cuba), “The Sense of National Identity in the [...]
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Klumb: An Architecture of Social Concern

On September 6, 2006 By Andrew Hurley
Texts for Klumb: An Architecture of Social Concern, ed. Enrique Vivoni, San Juan: AACUPR/UPR Press, 2006: “Henry Klumb and Poetic Exuberance in Architecture,” Enrique Vivoni. “Henry Klum and the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus: The Logic of the Results,” Silvia Arango. “The Design of Progress: Henry Klumb and the Modernization of [...]
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The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

On September 4, 2006 By Andrew Hurley
  The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud, a novel by Julia Navarro. New York: Bantam Books, 2006.
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Rubén Darío: Selected Writings

On November 4, 2005 By Andrew Hurley
Rubén Darío:Selected Writings. Prose translations, Andrew Hurley; poetry translations, Steven White and Greg Simon, New York: Penguin Classics, November 2005. (Hurley’s section: >400 pages, 99,000 words + notes and a Translator’s Note.) With an introduction by Ilan Stavans. Translator’s note for Rubén Darío: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics, 2005). All end-notes for this volume.
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Book of Imaginary Beings

On November 4, 2005 By Andrew Hurley
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, with illustrations by Peter Sis. New York: Penguin, November 2005. With notes and a translator’s note by AH. Translator’s note for Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings (Viking, 2005).
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Fifteen Poems and a Lullaby

On September 6, 2005 By Andrew Hurley
Quince Poemas y una nana para soñar/ Fifteen Poems and a Lullaby, Myriam Yagnam, illus. by the author, San Juan: Ediciones Huracán, 2005.
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Homar: Homo Humoris

On September 6, 2005 By Andrew Hurley
Texts for Homar: Homo Humoris, catalog of the exhibit at the Pío López Martínez Museum, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus, 2005: “Humor, Amor, . . . Homar,” Antonio Martorell. “Lorenzo Homar, Lyric and Satire,” Arcadio Díaz Quiñones. “The Co(s)mic Line of Lorenzo Homar,” Elvis Fuentes.
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The Route of the Sun: Ecuador

On September 5, 2005 By Andrew Hurley
El Camino del Sol/ The Route of the Sun: Ecuador, Cristóbal Corral Vega, Quito, Ecuador: Harmonía Terra, 2005.
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The Wake

On September 4, 2005 By Andrew Hurley
The Wake (El rastro), a novel by Margo Glantz (Mexico), winner of the 2004 Sor Juana Prize for Fiction, Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, September 2005.
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