On the Genius of Yuri Herrera’s Character Names

As a devout lexophile and voracious reader, I very much like the phrase What’s your read on this? It seems a particularly apt expression when applied to Yuri Herrera’s texts.

Source: On the Genius of Yuri Herrera’s Character Names

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I love names, and I love translations, so I really enjoyed this articles by a translator talking about their struggles with properly translating Spanish names to English when direct translations don’t really work out!