About

Jordan Landsman is a writer and literary translator from New York City. His work has appeared in Poetry, BOMB, Lit Hub, Asymptote, and Latin American Literature Today. He is currently translating a third collection of stories by the Argentine writer Ángel Bonomini for Transit Books and managing the historic Community Theater in Catskill, NY.

You can drop him a line at landsmanj [at] gmail.com

Translations

More Translations

“January Afternoon” and “Walking in the Winds of Boedo” by Daniel Durand, Poetry magazine

“Some Notes on the Land of the Giants” by Luciano Lamberti, Asymptote

Longlisted in Best Literary Translations 2026, Deep Vellum

“Imitation Is the Sincerest Form” by Rafael Romero, Latin American Literature Today

Writing

“On Translating Daniel Durand” in Poetry magazine

“The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini” in Lit Hub

Press

“The Watercolorist” by Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books

“Magical Idealism” by Alberto Manguel, The Times Literary Supplement

“The Novices of Lerna,” Publisher’s Weekly

“The Novices of Lerna,” Kirkus Reviews

“Room of Mirrors: On Ángel Bonomini’s The Novices of Lerna” by Jordan Spector, Asymptote

“Holding a Mirror to Realism in The Novices of Lerna” by Matthew Zarenkiewicz, The Rumpus

“Shattered Selves and Confused Doubles: Ángel Bonomini’s The Novices of Lerna” by Tobias Carrol, Reactor

“Apparitions of the Self: Review of Ángel Bonomini’s The Novices of Lerna” by Will McMahon, Ancillary Review of Books

“The Novices of Lerna” by Willem Marx, Necessary Fiction

“The Man Who Dazzled Borges” by Jacob Sugarman, The Buenos Aires Herald

“The Novices of Lerna” by Louis Cammell, The Skinny

“Doppelgangers galore: The Novices of Lerna, by Ángel Bonomini, reviewed” by Stuart Evers, The Spectator

“The mysterious Argentinian novella that ‘dazzled’ Borges” by John Self, The Telegraph