Álvaro Enrigue
Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose novel You Dreamed of Empires, was a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the London Review of Books, El País, and n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.
Álvaro Enrigue’s most recent novel, Now I Surrender, is named the most anticipated book of 2026 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Lithub.
Part epic, part alt-Western, Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue’s most expansive and impassioned novel yet. A woman’s desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico–US border wars. It weaves past and present, myth and history into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true liberty—and an homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory.