Samanta Schweblin, one of the most important literary voices of her generation, presents her new collection, Good and Evil and Other Stories. Across these tightly composed pieces, Schweblin explores the fragile boundary between the ordinary and the uncanny, crafting narratives where daily life slips into disquiet and moments of rupture expose human vulnerability and existential unease. Her prose, spare and precise, leaves silences and absences that heighten the sense of dread, allowing the uncanny to emerge from what seems most familiar.
Schweblin is the author of Fever Dream, Mouthful of Birds, Little Eyes, and Seven Empty Houses, works that have been translated into more than thirty languages and recognized with honors including the National Book Award for Translated Literature and a nomination for the International Booker Prize.
She appears in conversation with Megan McDowell, the award-winning translator of all her works into English. McDowell’s collaborations with Schweblin, as well as with writers such as Alejandro Zambra and Mariana Enriquez, have been essential in bringing some of the most vital voices of Latin American literature to readers around the world.
