Nathaniel Popkin is author of the forthcoming novel The Year of the Return (2019, Open Books) and five other books of fiction and non-fiction. He is co-editor (with Stephanie Feldman) of the anthology Who Will Speak for America? (2018, Temple University Press) and reviews editor of Cleaver Magazine. He is writer of the 2018 documentary film Sisters in Freedom.
Winter 2016
Escaping from History: Horacio Castellanos Moya’s The Dream of My Return and Édouard Levé’s Newspaper
Erasmo—the exiled, manic Salvadoran newspaperman who narrates The Dream of My Return, Horacio Castellanos Moya’s latest novel to be translated into English—has long been bothered by an insistent internal voice demanding he abandon his life in Mexico City and return home to San Salvador, despite the certain danger of the civil war.
Fall 2014
We Tell Ourselves Stories: Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams
The day I read Leslie Jamison’s new book of essays, The Empathy Exams, I took our family parakeet to the veterinary hospital.