The Maris Review, vol 26

"Books that craft Jewish characters to embody the endurance of the human spirit in all its nobility are, in fact, denying these characters’ humanity." --Ilana Masad on Holocaust Beach Reads

What I read this week

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, trans by Natasha Wimmer

It’s 1519 and the conquistador Hernán Cortés and his smelly gang of aspiring colonizers have entered Tenochtitlan (current day Mexico City), an Aztec kingdom full of an exotic delicacy called chocolate, as well as ample hallucinogens and painted warriors. What follows …