Tanya Huntington

On turbulence and possibility: A view from the Acropolis

Tanya Huntington

“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

Tanya Huntington

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

Tanya Huntington

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

Tanya Huntington

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

Tanya Huntington

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,…

Presidential Fiction

Tanya Huntington

Would citizens in the United States consider casting a vote for the author of their favorite novel during next year’s presidential election? Because their neighbors in Latin America have a…

Constellations of Reading

Tanya Huntington

Something mortifying has reared its ugly head on our social networks: spring cleaning. Friends of mine have actually taken to boasting about their perfectly groomed bookshelves online. “It’s only been…

An Author’s Rights.

Tanya Huntington

"You are the books you have read, the paintings you have seen, the music heard and then forgotten, the streets explored. You are your childhood, your family, selected friends, a…

A Yanqui in Havana

Tanya Huntington

When I learned the US was relaxing travel restrictions to Cuba, I couldn’t help but recall one of many jokes that were making the rounds on the island when I…

Elegía con epílogo

Tanya Huntington

Autor: Carlos Azar Manzur Título: El círculo de la presencia. Poemario en dos actos y un epílogo a la muerte de mi padre Editorial: Elefanta, México Año: 2014 Más allá de…

Can You Keep a Secret? Well, Translators Can’t

Tanya Huntington

In fact, that is pretty much what we do: take the best-kept secrets of a literary tradition and reveal them to readers of other languages –generally, our own native tongues.…

Un Rimbaud, un Wittgenstein, un Duchamp: Ulises Carrión

Tanya Huntington

¿Cuál es la relevancia de Ulises Carrión para la poesía mexicana contemporánea? Diría primero que tenemos que indagar sobre quién fue el “desconocido más famoso de México”, como lo llama…