Leonora Carrington: Cuentos mágicos
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…
Tanya Huntington
Havana (An Elegy to Myself)
La Habana (Una elegía a mí misma)
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…
Un exposé del Museo Expuesto
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,…
Interpretar a Mary
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…
Platillos líricos
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…
Antes, de Mónica Maristain
"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…
Ojo-Hoja, New Artworks by Juan Iván González de León
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…
What’s In A Wall?
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…
That Mexican Thing
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…
The Dark Mirror of Neoliberalism: On Dreamland by Sam Quinones
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…
On turbulence and possibility: A view from the Acropolis
“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…
Adam Wiseman’s Ventanas
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…