Shadow
Sombra
English translation by Dave Oliphant Soy como el hombre que vendió su sombra, o mejor, como la sombra del hombre que la vendió. Fernando Pessoa Every day we attest to…
Literature /literatura
Essay /ensayo
Sex, Sexuality, Eroticism
Sexo, sexualidad, erotismo
Translated by Carol Polsgrove and Paloma Fernández Sánchez (from El lado oscuro: ensayos sobre violencia) From the editorial meeting emerged the topic: writing an essay on sex. I took…
Beware Walmart’s Role in the Gun Control Debate
En el debate sobre el control de armas, cuidado con Walmart
As Vice President Joe Biden plotted his task force’s plan of action on gun control this week, he invited Walmart representatives to the White House to talk about it. That…
From Classic Dilemmas For Mexicans And Other Survivors Democracy of The Nameless Dead
English translation by Tanya Huntington An alleged democracy that is not anchored, first and foremost, in a sympathetic awareness of the dignity of man is reduced to nothing more than…
From The Book of Explanations Instinct Enraptured by Pain
English translation by Tanya Huntington The body stretches out in bed. Eyes open to gaze at the curtain and the thread of daylight that crosses over to the white wall.…
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…
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…
