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Craig Epplin

Craig Epplin is an associate professor of Spanish at Portland State University and author of Late Book Culture in Argentina (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). He is currently at work on a study of the representation of underground space—mines, the Metro, tunnels, and graves—in recent Mexican literature. icon

Inside the Map: On Two Novels by Pola Oloixarac

By Craig Epplin

One of Jorge Luis Borges’s most enduring fictions is the one-paragraph story “Del rigor en la ciencia” (“On Exactitude in Science”). Structured as a fragment of ...

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