Adam Morris is the author of American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation (Liveright, 2019). He has translated fiction by Hilda Hilst, João Gilberto Noll, Beatriz Bracher, Pola Oloixarac, and others. (Author photograph by Robbie Sweeny)
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