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Carlos Fonseca
Carlos Fonseca Suárez was born in Costa Rica in 1987 and grew up in Puerto Rico. He is the author of Colonel Lágrimas and Natural History. His work has appeared in BOMBArt FlashAsymptote and elsewhere. He is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and lives in London.


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So Many Times, Lausanne

Essay

November 2020

Carlos Fonseca

TR. Jessica Sequeira

Essay

November 2020

I   As soon as I sat down, I remembered the quote by Enrique Vila-Matas which in some way had brought me there: ‘the...
Colonel Lágrimas

fiction

September 2016

Carlos Fonseca

TR. Megan McDowell

fiction

September 2016

The colonel must be looked at from up close. We have to approach him, get near enough to be a nuisance, near enough to...

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feature

December 2013

The Horror of Philosophy

Houman Harouni

feature

December 2013

An article published in this same venue opens with a grievance: ‘We lack the philosophers that we require for...

feature

July 2014

Another month, another year, another crisis: eleven years in Beirut

Paul Cochrane

feature

July 2014

Rumours of impending conflict can wreak a particular type of havoc. This is not as physically manifest as the...

fiction

January 2014

Textile

Orly Castel-Bloom

TR. Dalya Bilu

fiction

January 2014

It was not only avoiding thoughts of home that helped the good sniper to carry out his mission as...

 

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