Eduardo Lago is undoubtedly one of the leading experts in American literature of the entire Hispanic field and has interviewed, reviewed or translated to a good part of its main exponents: David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth, John Barth, Don DeLillo ... In Walt Whitman He no longer lives here. Essays on American Literature meet for the first time their writings on the subject, forming a book that can be read as a very meticulous letter of love to the American literary tradition, which, like all true passion, is not exempt from iron criticism and judgments demolishing, because Lago's only commitment is to the kind of quality literature that is destined to become, over the years, the narrative testimony of an era.