Las otras

With the sharp wit, critical imagination, and refined, evocative writing that have earned her international acclaim such as the Femina étranger Prize, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers in *Las otras* (The Others) a radical perspective "on the present and its thorns." This collection of fifteen essays, woven together with great intelligence, draws on the author's concerns, readings, experiences, and memories to examine the contemporary world, attempting to understand new scenarios while simultaneously envisioning alternative horizons. The dilemmas of feminism, queerness, the Palestinian catastrophe, the body and Islam, the circulation of images in the virtual world, neo-fascism, and the recovery of ancestral memory elicit reflections from Trabucco Zerán that both move and challenge. "Do we truly see with words?" she asks, reflecting on the power of language to name or erase. “And what to do with the writer whose stance makes us radically uncomfortable?” she asks in another brilliant piece on new forms of censorship. A book that confirms the talent of an essential writer in today’s literary landscape.