Notable Works
Books
2018 Untranslatability Goes Global. Edited by S.J. Levine & K. Lateef-Jan (NY & London: Routledge)
2015 Tides (Marea baja by Pedro Solis Cuadra). Translation: Chapbook, Mindmade Books
2012 Reckoning: Chapbook. Finishing Line Press
2012 Nothing in the Rough (la nada en bruto by Gabriel Magaña Merlo). Translation: Dialogos Press
2010 Borges on Writing. Edited by Suzanne Jill Levine, Penguin Paperback Classics (General editor of the Borges poetry and non-fiction series)
2002 Manuel Puig y la Mujer Araña: Vida y Ficciones. Translated Elvio Gandolfo with the author. Barcelona & Buenos Aires: Seix Barral (Los Tres Mundos, Biografía) & Editorial Planeta, 417 pp.
2001 Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions. (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Faber & Faber, 2000; University of Wisconsin, paperback, 2001).
1998 Escriba Subversiva: poética de una traductora. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica (tr. R. Gallo & SJL).
1991 The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press; 2nd edition (new preface): Dalkey Archive Press, Fall 2009.
1982 Guia de Bioy Casares. Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos.
1979 Maestros hispánicos del siglo XX: Intermediate College Spanish Textbook. Co-editor with E. Rodríguez Monegal, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
1975 El espejo hablado: un estudio de Cien años de soledad. Caracas: Monte Avila Editores.
1970 Latin America: Fiction and Poetry in Translation. (bibliography with indexes, through December 1969). New York: Center for Inter-American Relations.
Selected Translations by SJL
2020 Bezoar & Other Unsettling Stories. By Guadalupe Nettel (Seven Stories Press)
2018 The Taiga Syndrome. Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy Project)
2017 Uselessness. By Eduardo Lalo (The University of Chicago Press)
2013 Mundo Cruel: Stories. By Luis Negron (NY: Seven Stories Press) [winner of 2014 Lambda Fiction Prize]
2012 The Lizard’s Tale. By Jose Donoso (prologues by SJL and Julio Ortega) Northwestern UP.[Winner of PEN USA translation prize)
2007 Beach Birds. By Severo Sarduy (with Carol Maier; translators afterword). Los Angeles: Otis Books/Seismicity Editions.
1999 The Non-Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges. Viking Penguin (edited by E. Weinberger; collaboration with EW and E. Allen.)
1995 Christ on the Rue Jacob. By Severo Sarduy (with Carol Maier), San Francisco: Mercury House.
1994 The Selected Stories of Adolfo Bioy Casares. New Directions.
1992 A Russian Doll and Other Stories. By Adolfo Bioy Casares. New York: New Directions, Inc.
1991 Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water. (collaboration/Eliot Weinberger) By Cecilia Vicuña. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press.
1991 Tropical Night Falling. by Manuel Puig. New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Faber & Faber, Inc., 1992.
1990 Larva. (collaboration/R. Francis), by Julián Ríos. Dalkey Archive Press (Illinois).
1989 Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata. By Adolfo Bioy Casares. New York: E.P. Dutton; 1991 Penguin USA; London: Bloomsbury. [winner of PEN USA translation prize]
1987 Maitreya. By Severo Sarduy. New Hampshire: Ediciones del Norte.
1984 Infante's Inferno. By Guillermo Cabrera Infante. New York: Harper & Row; paperback, Avon Books, l985; London: Faber & Faber, 1987.
1984 A House in the Country. By Jose Donoso, in New York: Alfred A.Knopf; paperback, Random House, l985.
1978 Asleep in the Sun. By Adolfo Bioy Casares. New York: Persea Books; reprint: Dutton, 1989.
1978 View of Dawn in the Tropics. By Guillermo Cabrera Infante. New York: Harper & Row; two paperback reprints.
1976 The Buenos Aires Affair. By Manuel Puig. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1976; reprint: Random House, 1980; London: Faber & Faber 1989. New edition: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.
1975 Cobra. By Severo Sarduy. Foreword by SJL. New York: Dutton.
1975 A Plan for Escape. By Adolfo Bioy Casares. New York: Dutton; reissued by Graywolf Press, 1988.
1973 Heartbreak Tango. By Manuel Puig. New York: E. P. Dutton; three paperback reprints: Dutton; Random House; Dutton, 1988. Forthcoming edition: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009.
1973 All Fires the Fire. Short stories by Julio Cortázar. New York: Pantheon; paperback, 1988. Reissued by New Directions, 2022.
1972 Triple Cross: a volume of three novellas: Hell Has No Limits. By Jose Donoso (reissued Sun & Moon Press, 1996 Holy Place. By Carlos Fuentes (paperback reprint by FSG); From Cuba with a Song by Severo Sarduy. New York: E. P. Dutton; reissued, Sun & Moon Press, 1994.
1971 Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. By Manuel Puig. E. P. Dutton; three paperback reprints (Avon; Random House; Dutton, 1988). Forthcoming edition: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009.
1971 Three Trapped Tigers. (collaboration) by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. New York: Harper & Row; paperbacks: Harper & Row; Avon Books, l985, Faber & Faber, 1990
Poetry
2016 Tides. Translation: Chapbook, Mindmade Books
2012 Reckoning: Chapbook. Finishing Line Press
2011 Nothing in the Rough. Translation, Dialogos Press