Essays
The Atlantic - My Sister Was Disappeared 43 Years Ago
LitHub - Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland
Interviews
NPR Weekend Edition with Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Interview Magazine with Christopher Bollen - On Ghosts, Tango, and “The Odyssey”
Electric Lit with Julian Zabalbeascoa - An Argentinian Underworld Haunted by the Ghosts of the Disappeared
PEN Transmissions with Will Forrester - On Ghost Stories, Love Stories, and Searches after the 70s Argentine Dictatorship
Reviews
Seattle Times - “A debut novel as impressive as they come. Tough, wily, dreamlike… The tangles of action, intention and self-deception [Loedel] evokes are spellbinding in ways that will hit home in any society where democracy, the rule of law and the very concept of the truth are in peril.”
L.A. Times - “Dante at the ‘dirty war’… [Loedel] continually works to erase the notion that only the evil commit evil acts, which adds to the horror. How do ‘ordinary men’ become instruments of a repressive state?”
The Economist - “Powerful… The plain delicacy of Mr Loedel’s prose suits not only the horror of his subject, but also his novel’s risky premise… a fittingly moving tribute to the author’s sister and her many fellow victims.”
The New Yorker - “Haunting… The novel weaves betrayal and sacrifice together so intricately that one cannot be disentangled from the other.”
O, the Oprah Magazine - “Elegant, searching… Amid echoes of the Orpheus myth and swirls of magic, Loedel exits south, into an Argentina roiling with political ferment, a descent into an underworld of memory and brutality.”
The Atlantic - “In Loedel’s novel, ghosts are a language for this open wound, a way to narrate death and loss in the absence of any kind of record.”
The Millions - “Weaving history and humanity, Loedel crafts a powerful and compelling narrative of a seemingly dystopian world that, unfortunately, was all too real.”
New York Times Book Review - “In a commendable display of chutzpah, he has written an Argentine Gothic… Loedel has inherited a particular brand of mordant humor from his literary forebears in the Southern Cone… Deserves some attention.”
Harvard Review - “A marvel of a literary debut… Elegant, courageous… Hades, Argentina announces a major career, and we can expect great work from this gifted writer in the future.”
Bookpage - “Clean, tight and engaging, with a rhythm that invites you to keep reading and to see where the story goes and what sense you can make of it… The reader won’t be able to look away.”
Kirkus - “A complex and intimate meditation on love, guilt, and the decisions that haunt us forever.”
Publishers Weekly - “Mesmerizing… Loedel’s unflinching look at human frailty adds a revelatory new chapter to South American Cold War literature.”