Status Updates From Miracle in Seville: A Novel

“This afternoon in the Maestranza you’ll see how Dina and Mota bull can be. . . . If the matadors prove equal to their task, you’ll see miracles.”

‘I’m not allowed to fail,’ he told me as we rode on horseback through open fields where hundreds of animals roamed unfenced. ‘When the public sees one of my bulls they see not me but the honorable reach of history.’