Eliot Weinberger is an essayist and translator. His recent works include the National Book Critics Circle-nominated What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles; What I Heard About Iraq; and most recently, The Ghost of Birds and with Octavio Paz 11 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei He won The National Book Critics award for criticism for his translations of Borges. And PEN's first Gregory Kolovakos Award for promoting Hispanic literature in the US, and he is America's first literary writer to receive Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle. He lives in New York City.