Book Launch - Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba edited by Ricardo Wilson
Join the Department of English for the launch of Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba (Princeton UP, 2026), edited and introduced by Ricardo Wilson.
March 24, 5:30 pm
Thomson House, 3650 Rue McTavish
A landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writers.
Troubled Lands features stories by eighteen writers, including Rafael Felipe Muñoz, Nellie Campobello, Lino Novás Calvo, Luis Felipe Rodríguez, Germán List Arzubide, Pablo de la Torriente-Brau, and Juan de la Cabada. The collection depicts Mexico in the wake of its revolution and Cuba in the years between the brutal regimes of Machado and Batista.
Ricardo Wilson, a creative writer and scholar, is an associate professor of English at Williams College and the founder and executive director of The Outpost Foundation, a residency and arts advocacy organization for writers of color from the United States and Latin America. He is the author of An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories (PANK Books) and The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness (Northwestern University Press). An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories was selected as a finalist for both the Vermont Book Award and the Big Other Book Award. His writing can also be found in, among other spaces, 3:AM Magazine, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, BOMB, Callaloo, The Common, CR: The New Centennial Review, swamp pink, Northwest Review, The Offing, and Stirring. He is at work on his forthcoming novel Even Worse than the Nightmare.