What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2025
Five of the best translated fiction of 2024 An indigenous epic, macabre short stories from Spain, Aztec adventures and more The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2024
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue review – colonialism as a bloody heist comedy The Mexican writer’s imaginative riff on the conquest of the Aztecs is an enigmatic, drily funny farce The Guardian - UK · Jan 7, 2024
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue review – the birth of Mexico Real events are compressed into one extraordinary day as Spanish conquistadors penetrate the heart of Aztec civilisation, in a novel of hallucinatory vividness The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2023