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…
Tanya Huntington
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…
RULFO = ARREOLA
Last week during a radio interview, the eminent literary critic Christopher Domínguez Michael postulated that if the present globalizing trend continues, within fifteen years or so we may not even…
MARTÍN LUIS GUZMÁN and the paradox of random violence
The general sentiment shared by most Mexican writers today is one of perplexed outrage. All too aware that criminal violence has taken on a terrible randomness and that simply choosing…
Mexico City: The End is Near
Years ago, my fiancé from Mexico accompanied me on a road trip to explore my remote origins in the heartland of the United States. As we drove along the interstate,…