Other Work
Apart from her work as a novelist and memoirist, Marie is a journalist, literary critic, and essayist on American culture. In order to describe the terrain of South America for the National Geographic, she flew over the Andes in a small plane.
She has recalled her childhood in Peru in a stunning photographic study of Machu Picchu. She has been a regular contributor of book reviews and opinion pieces for The Washington Post, where she has had a long career as a writer and editor. She has published essays on the literary life and biculturalism in a wide variety of American publications.
Book Reviews:
Contributor:
Through the Eyes of the Condor
A través de los ojos del condor
Stone Offerings (English and Spanish)
Journalism:
He’s Not Black: He’s Also Half-White
John Updike, a Conversation with Marie Arana
At War and at Peace: he Epic Saga of Writer Vassily Aksyonov’s Life
