About

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

Translations

Slow Elephants of Milan

by Ángel Bonomini

Transit Books, Forthcoming August 2026

A Sleepless Night

by Micaela Chirif, illustrated by Joaquín Camp

Transit Children’s Editions, October 2024

2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book
2025 USBBY Outstanding International Books

The Novices of Lerna

by Ángel Bonomini

Transit Books, June 2024

The Bengal Tiger” in Bomb Magazine
Aromatic Herbs” in Lit Hub
Figs and Jasmines” in Latin American Literature Today

More Translations

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

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