Graphic: Allison Corr
The late Roger Ebert once wrote that “the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.” Great fiction comes off a similar production line its many parts and widgets are often designed to engender identification and empathy from the reader, to get them deep inside the head of a stranger. The short stories of Argentine author and journalist Mariana Enriquez are seeing machines lenses that throw the uglier side of the human condition into uncomfortably sharp focus. She shows us horrors (both historical and otherworldly) that the naked eye doesn’t want to see.
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While she is a prolific author in Argentina, Enriquez’s novels have yet to be translated into English. A collection of her short stories,