To possess a telescope without its other essential half -the microscope- seems to me a symbol of the darkest incomprehension. The task of the right eye is to peer into…
A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost I came here to Havana with no song inside my heart, except…
Para mí, una de las muestras más significativas de los últimos años dentro de una ciudad repleta de museos fue Museo expuesto. La colección de arte moderno de la UNAM,…
Después de una larga ausencia del escenario, emprendí este verano la gran aventura de interpretar el papel de Mary Tyrone en una producción del Largo viaje hacia la noche que…
El descubrimiento del homo sapiens más antiguo conocido hasta la fecha —un ancestro de Marruecos, que rompió el récord anterior con un margen sustancial de cinco ceros— me recordó cuando…
"Qué culpa tiene el aire cuando todo alrededor grita" es una pregunta que formula Mónica Maristain sobre los sonidos encontrados en su más reciente poemario titulado Antes, coeditado por Literal…
Art serves no real purpose, or so we are told. That is why it must endeavor to be seductive. Irresistible, even. And yet there is always a distance, a disbelief…
In a philosophical dialogue that describes our reality as something that goes on inside a cave, Plato suggested our perception is as limited as that of prisoners in chains, staring…
What does Mexico mean to the average US citizen? Jumping beans? Speedy González? The lovely señorita from the Corona beer tray, perhaps? Does it conjure up the image of the…
Mexico currently performs a well-leveraged role as the main supplier in the U.S. drug trade, a multi-billion-dollar business that has bypassed the world’s longest political land border (and one of…
“Things are difficult,” is the phrase one hears most often in response to the usual polite queries as to how things are going in Greece. Following a decade of unrelenting…
Last week, I talked my husband Francisco into helping me lug a six-foot photograph of someone else’s living room across ten blocks of our Mexico City neighborhood. The photograph had…