Derek Walcott en Xalapa
Huyendo de la persecución política, el poeta venezolano Rafael Cadenas se refugió en la Isla de Trinidad entre 1952 y 1956. Ahí cayó en sus manos un pequeño libro que…
Literature /literatura
Essay /ensayo
Can You Keep a Secret? Well, Translators Can’t
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.…
Oppression Never Sleeps
When the Nazis first set fire to books, there were some people who said, “Don’t worry, they’re burning only paper.” Other people formed the Resistance. We are part of the…
El malestar en la teoría
No sé dónde leí que en el panorama del arte contemporáneo la estética se limita al estudio de la belleza y, en cambio, el arte sólo es competencia de una…
15M and a (More or Less) Revolutionary Tradition
El 15M y la tradición (más o menos) revolucionaria
English translation by Tanya Huntington The movement that physically and symbolically occupied Puerta del Sol on May 15, 2011 seemed to be a spontaneous outburst that had emerged at a…
Egypt Two Years Later
Egipto dos años después
Political change, particularly grassroots revolutionary change, is often a non-linear, messy process. From 1989 we learned that even with the end of the Cold War and the fall of the…
YoSoy132 después de Atenco De la Primavera Mexicana a un Verano Peligroso
El 13 de mayo de 2012 me reuní con Enrique Peña Nieto. Era domingo. Yo estaba ahí como parte del trabajo de reporteo para un perfil del candidato priísta que…
Philip Roth: The Struggle With Writing Is Over
The Relation Between Writer and Material, Volition and Production. Philip Roth has said he is done with writing. He told an interviewer for a French journal. It was not an…
Octavio Paz y los narradores del Boom
“Los hambrientos peces fantásticos” Este año se conmemora el 15 aniversario luctuoso de Octavio Paz, cuya muerte ocurrió el 19 de abril de 1998. En estas páginas, Malva Flores recuerda,…
The Limits of Communication
Los límites de la comunicación
Networked information technologies have been the means through which people have been subjected to the competitive intensity of neoliberal capitalism. Enthusiastically participating in personal and social media—I have broadband at…
Regulation
Reglamentación
The other day, as I was cleaning my hob, I accidentally knocked the switch and turned the gas on. I didn’t notice at the time. So two hours later, when…
The Crisis of Crisis
Crisis de la crisis
Crisis means a turning point, one that is typically unexpected in its manifestation or its intensity, and for which the affected population and its leaders are ill prepared. Think of…
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