Bécquer Seguín co-edits the Literature in Translation and Sports sections at Public Books. He is an associate professor of Iberian studies at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain (Harvard University Press, 2024). His essays and criticism have appeared in El País, The Nation, Slate, and elsewhere.
Bécquer Seguín
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Distant Sports
Stories—with video!—of some of the most memorable, gut-wrenching, or downright remarkable moments in sports history over the past 40 years.
Spanish Civil Wars
“Is this Barcelona?” The question sets the tone for the final scenes of Sebastià Alzamora’s novel Blood Crime. It comes from the thoughts of a young religious man, a member of the Catholic group …
Soccer for Intellectuals
Baseball has Roger Angell. Boxing has A. J. Liebling. Yet soccer, puzzlingly, has no writer of such caliber, no one who has managed to find in the sport a comparably inexhaustible source of literary writing and intellectual inquiry. And it’s not for lack of suitors. Rafael Alberti, Günter Grass, Charles Simic, Nelson Rodrigues, and Ted […]
