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The Assault: A Novel

On June 1, 1995 By Andrew Hurley
  The Assault (El asalto), a novel by Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), New York: Penguin USA, 1994. 145 pp.
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The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando

On September 5, 1994 By Andrew Hurley
The IllFated Peregrinations of Fray Servando (El mundo alucinante), a new translation of the novel by Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), originally published in English under the title Hallucinations (trans. Gordon Brotherston, New York: Viking/Penguin), New York: Avon Books, 1987. 246 pp. (paper). Acquired and reissued by Viking/Penguin USA, Fall, 1994.
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True and False Romances, a book of short stories

On September 1, 1994 By Andrew Hurley
True and False Romances, a book of short stories by Ana Lydia Vega (Puerto Rico), chosen from all her published volumes of short stories, London: Serpent’s Tail, 1994. 261 pp. (U.S. distribution Fall 1994.)
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Tradition into the Future: The First Hundred Years of the Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

On September 5, 1993 By Andrew Hurley
Tradition into the Future: The First Hundred Years of the Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, a history by Guillermo A. Baralt (Puerto Rico), San Juan: Carimar/BPPR, 1993, approx. 420 pp. + notes and index.
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Tradition into the Future: The First Hundred Years of the Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

On September 5, 1993 By Andrew Hurley
Tradition into the Future: The First Hundred Years of the Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, a history by Guillermo A. Baralt (Puerto Rico), San Juan: Carimar/BPPR, 1993, approx. 420 pp. + notes and index.
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The Red Virgin

On September 1, 1993 By Andrew Hurley
The Red Virgin (La virgen roja, La vierge rouge), a novel by Fernando Arrabal (Spain), New York: Penguin USA, 1993. 254 pp. [Trans. from the Spanish and French.
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Islam in Spanish literature

On September 5, 1992 By Andrew Hurley
Islam and Spanish Literature (Huellas del Islam en la literatura española. De Juan Ruiz a Juan Goytisolo), a critical volume by Luce López-Baralt, Leyden (E.J. Brill Publishers), 1992. 299 pp. + introductory material.  
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A review of Karpov on Karpov

On March 1, 1992 By Andrew Hurley
A review of Karpov on Karpov by Fernando Arrabal (under the dreadful title “Getting It Off His Chess”), New York Times Book Review, Sunday, March 1, 1992.
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A Hammock Beneath the Mangos: Stories from Latin America

On November 6, 1991 By Andrew Hurley
Three stories in A Hammock Beneath the Mangos: Stories from Latin America, ed. Thomas Colchie, New York (New American Library), 1991. Juan Carlos Onetti (Uruguay), “The Dog Will Have His Day” Manuel Puig (Argentina), “Relative Humidity 95%” Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), “Bestial Among the Flowers”
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“Of Noble Blood”

On October 6, 1991 By Andrew Hurley
“Of Noble Blood,” from Invitación al polvo, for the San Juan Star, October, 1991, in a “Tribute to Manuel Ramos Otero.”
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The Angel of Darkness

On October 5, 1991 By Andrew Hurley
The Angel of Darkness (Abaddón el exterminador), a novel by Ernesto Sabato (Argentina), New York: Ballantine, 1991. 435 pp. hardbound. [British ed.: London: Jonathan Cape, January, 1992.]
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El Greco -&- Fernando Arrabal

On September 5, 1991 By Andrew Hurley
El Greco -&- Fernando Arrabal, a “reflection” by Fernando Arrabal (Spain) for the series “Secret Museums,” Paris: Flohic Editions, 1991. 79 oversize pp.; 38 full-color illus. [Translated from the Spanish and French.]
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“Children of the Mind with Disposible Bodies: Metaphors of Self in a Text on AI and Robotics”

On November 6, 1990 By Andrew Hurley
“Children of the Mind with Disposible Bodies: Metaphors of Self in a Text on AI and Robotics,” Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarrier, for presentation at a conference on Post-Modernism and the Concept of Self at the University of Leeds, November, 1990.
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The Palace of the White Skunks

On September 5, 1990 By Andrew Hurley
The Palace of the White Skunks (El palacio de las blanquísimas mofetas), a novel by Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), New York: Viking/Penguin, 1990. 356 pp.
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The Brightest Star

On September 5, 1989 By Andrew Hurley
The Brightest Star (Arturo, la estrella más brillante), a novella by Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), in the volume Old Rosa: A Novel in Two Stories (“Old Rosa” trans. by Anne Tashi Slater), New York: Grove Press, 1989. 60 pp. + 2 pp. Author’s Note. Reissued by Grove Press in paperback in Fall, 1994.  
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“Up on the Roof” (“Nueva York y otras sonrisas”)

On September 6, 1988 By Andrew Hurley
“Up on the Roof” (“Nueva York y otras sonrisas”), Chapter XXI of Puertorriqueños: Album de la sagrada familia puertorriqueña a partir de 1898, by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, in Grand Street, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Fall, 1998), 66 (“Secrets”), pp. 98-103.
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The Princess of the Iron Palace

On September 5, 1988 By Andrew Hurley
The Princess of the Iron Palace (La princesa del Palacio de Hierro), a novel by Gustavo Sainz (Mexico), New York: Grove Press, 1987 (paper, 1988). 307 pp.
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Singing From the Well

On June 1, 1988 By Andrew Hurley
Singing From the Well (Cantando en el pozo; prev. Span. title, changed for copyright problems with a pirated edition, Celestino antes del alba), a novel by Reinaldo Arenas, New York: Penguin/Viking, 1987 (paper, 1988). 206 pp.
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Farewell to the Sea

On September 5, 1987 By Andrew Hurley
Farewell to the Sea (Otra vez el mar), a novel by Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), New York: Viking/Penguin, 1985 (paper, 1987). 413 pp.
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The Compass Stone

On September 5, 1987 By Andrew Hurley
The Compass Stone (La piedra iluminada, also known by French title La reverdie), a novel by Fernando Arrabal (Spain). New York: Grove Press, 1987. 165 pp. [Translated from the Spanish and French.]
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