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The Trojan Burritos and the Burden of History How Mexicans Are Coming Back for Their Lost Lands

Jay Mitsche Sepulveda

You would be right, and the pun would be forgiven if, in trying to put a number on how many Mexican restaurants there are in New York City you were…

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On the Brown Atlantis and Mexican Intellectuals

De la Atlántida morena y los intelectuales mexicanos

Mauricio Tenorio Trillo

Translated to English by Tanya Huntington In 1940 Mexico was already a very different nation than in 1910, but its image remained crystallized, to such an extent that it has…

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Soy un león americano

Sealtiel Alatriste

Soy el tercero, contando de izquierda a derecha. El de las barbas y bigote blanco, que con ese gesto tan fiero parece oligarca de la dictadura que tiene sojuzgado a…

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Introducción al método de Salvador Elizondo

Adolfo Castañón

En marzo pasado falleció Salvador Elizondo, uno de los grandes de la literatura mexicana contemporánea. Nacido en México en 1932, es autor de Farabeuf (1965), obra fundamental para la literatura…

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Pitol Is and Is Not Mexican: About El mago de Viena

Tanya Huntington

Up until recently Sergio Pitol (Puebla, 1933) was one of the best-kept secrets in Mexican literature. However, the recent announcement that he has been awarded the Premio Cervantes—perhaps the most…

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How American Is It? Three Mexican Writers Look North

Marteen Van Delden

Sometimes as model, more often as menace, the United States looms large in the Mexican literary imagination. Mexican writers who look north of the border have responded with a mixture…

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Álvaro Enrigue

Lo difícil es la primera hora: en parte porque hay que despertarse temprano en sábado para sacar las cosas a la calle y en parte porque nunca es deseable exponer…

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En 1967 se publica la antología Aquí once cubanos cuentan (México, 1967), del crítico José Rodríguez Feo, fundador junto a Lezama Lima de la revista Orígenes, y luego, con Virgilio Piñera, de Ciclón.…

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Invention of Love

La invención del amor

Ilan Stavans

Traducción al español de Anahí Ramírez Alfaro Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is also Professor of Poetry at Columbia…

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Eielson: Mutatis Mutandis

David Medina Portillo

Jorge Eduardo Eielson (Lima, 1924) forma parte de una generación de poetas peruanos que reúne, entre otros, a Javier Sologuren, Blanca Varela y Sebastián Salazar Bondy. Se trata de un…

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Aguántame tantito más: Pathology of an Urban Tale

Bradley Warren Davis

Unlike Juan Rulfo, who described the submissive and fatalistic lives of country folks living in extreme deprivation in a depressed agricultural setting, Rose Mary Salum, in a little more than…

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Gioconda Belli, the Naked Voice at the Cutting Edge of Poetry

Gioconda Belli, La voz desnuda a la orilla de la poesía

Benito Pastoriza Iyodo

Readers do not always have the opportunity to know a writer whose poetic work possesses such intensity for life, where the parameters of esthetic experience become fixed by the profoundness…

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The Trojan Burritos and the Burden of History How Mexicans Are Coming Back for Their Lost Lands

On the Brown Atlantis and Mexican Intellectuals

De la Atlántida morena y los intelectuales mexicanos

Soy un león americano

Introducción al método de Salvador Elizondo

Pitol Is and Is Not Mexican: About El mago de Viena

How American Is It? Three Mexican Writers Look North

Fin

Zoé Valdés y la nostalgia

Invention of Love

La invención del amor

Eielson: Mutatis Mutandis

Aguántame tantito más: Pathology of an Urban Tale

Gioconda Belli, the Naked Voice at the Cutting Edge of Poetry

Gioconda Belli, La voz desnuda a la orilla de la poesía