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Los mejores libros del 2022

Los mejores libros del 2022

Diversos autores
  Cristina Rivera Garza Eduardo Ruiz Sosa, El libro de nuestras ausencias. Un libro alucinante. Extrañaba la ambición desmedida con la que está escrito, especialmente porque cumple con las expectativas.…
Under the roses, it’s time to cry

Under the roses, it’s time to cry

Diego Gomez Pickering
En el techo del mundo       es tiempo de llorar.   Las aguas del río lavan las lágrimas que derraman los hijos de la poesía. El viento que…
XUL SOLAR (1887-1963)

XUL SOLAR (1887-1963)

Fernando Castro R.
Translucency and Opacity "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Pablo Picasso   Sixteen years have passed since the exhibit…
Los poetas olvidados

Los poetas olvidados

Ana Clavel y María de Alva
  En esta sabrosa conversación entre Ana Clavel y María de Alva, las autoras recuerdan a los poetas Pedro Garfias y Darío Galicia quienes, hasta ahora habían quedado en el…
En voz alta

En voz alta

Wendolyn Lozano Tovar
Deja que la lengua escalde tu garganta como viejo instrumento por siglos arrumbado.   El silencio reventó tus cuerdas.   Un silencio triturado que ya dispersó el viento.   Deja…
AI Helped Me Write This Article

AI Helped Me Write This Article

Efraín Villanueva
Twelve years ago, a friend of mine and I were having some beers when we shallowly started discussing the possibilities of artificial intelligence. I pointed out my firm conviction that,…
Two Poems

Two Poems

Jennifer Givhan
Girlchild Prophetess My daughter in her white-washed jean dress with butterfly skirt says she wants to stay home from school with me & my immediate thought: pull the car away…
The Functionary’s Story

The Functionary’s Story

Leonardo Garzaro
Translated by Emyr Humphreys It was said that a man who kept names lived in those parts, and it was easier for the visitor to find the town, street and…
BORDER (FALSE)

BORDER (FALSE)

Paula Abramo
Translated by DICK CLUSTER Nor does the word border declare its own boundaries or teach how to decipher them whether chromatically or in terms of time or of texture so…
On war

On war

Rogelio Villarreal
Ukraine, the peace and future of democracy War is hell. —General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891)   War is the fate of civilization, its drive and break. Humanity has not known…