Miraculous Air, by C. M. Mayo
C. M. Mayo:
Miraculous Air,
Milkweed, Canada, 2007.
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The 21st Century Macondo
This year, South American literary cliques celebrate that half a century ago, Colombian Gabriel García Márquez published the book that made our culture popular in the rest of the world:…
Prisoner of Tehran, by Marina Nemat
Marina Nemat: Prisoner of Tehran,
Simon and Schuster,
New York, 2007.
Me fui de Comala porque mi padre vivía en Houston
El siguiente texto es fragmento de una conferencia dictada por Monsiváis en Rice University el 4 de abril del 2007. La visita fue organizada por los departamentos de lenguas de…
Power and Painting
Pintura y poder
Mexico has historically been a rich laboratory to study the linkages between art and politics. For good or bad, political art is probably the best known Mexican art outside of…
León Darío Peláez: Días de comunión
Download Complete PDF / Descargar Serie fotográfica que, bajo el título de Mi Primera Comunión, forma parte de Territorios ajenos, uno de los proyectos editoriales que Pubicaciones Semana (Santa Fe,…
From Lake of Dreams
I. Sea of Nectar And he discovered a lovely shore where fresh water ran cool along its slender length; there was a fair meadow, many towering palm trees, more than…
El tañido de una flauta
Cuando el autor habla de El tañido de una flauta, la primera novela, señala las bases de su poética: “al escribirla establecí de modo tácito un compromiso con la escritura.…
Hisptinos: When The Blind Visionaries Strike Again
At first glance, to call someone a “blind visionary” sounds like a gratuitous oxymoron. But this is so only until we look further into it. For someone to have good…
Encrucijadas. Entre palabra y arte
Download Complete PDF / Descargar Literatura y arte, dos lenguajes que se entrecruzan, se imbrican o se oponen. Toda relación está mediatizada por el lenguaje. Transformar el entorno en signos,…
The Truth about Spain: American Hispanism, the Spanish Civil War, and the Crisis of Academic Legitimacy
Almost from the moment of its outbreak in July 1936, the Spanish Civil War sparked intense public controversy in many different countries, not least in the United States. For some,…
Our Lives Are The Rivers
Jaime Manrique:
Our Lives Are The Rivers.
Merino, Alfaguara, 2007