THE INCA TRAIL TO MACHU PICCHU
I was 39 years old when I decided to do the Inca trail. I was no spring chicken but boy did I have a zest for adventure! I had always…
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The Afterlife of Cotton: Los algodones
It was the summer Latinos became the majority in California; the same summer Donald Trump championed a flagrant anti-immigrant—and more specifically: anti-Mexican—agenda in trying to gain the presidential nomination of…
The Work of Art and the Social Sphere
Is there even a narrow correlation between the life and work of the artist? Is there absolute synchronism between the work and life of the author? Yes. Synchronism exists in…
Villaurrutia o el asedio de la muerte
El 25 diciembre de este año se cumplen 65 años de la muerte de Xavier Villaurrutia. Las circunstancias que rodearon su muerte continúan siendo un enigma o, al menos, tema…
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA on Capricorn 1985-1991
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
In the spring of 1985, the Rice University Department of Spanish and Portuguese invited Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to deliver two lectures: “The culture of freedom” and “The total…
RAÍCES, ENREDOS, ENCUENTROS. El libro secreto de Francisco I. Madero
Traducción de Agustín Cadena Cuando el cometa Halley, esa estrella de la cola de quetzal, atravesó con su resplandor los cielos mexicanos, en 1910, auguraba no sólo el centenario de…
Cultures
In October 1841, Brantz Mayer, a thirty-two-year-old lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland, arrived in Mexico City to take his post as secretary to the US legation in Mexico. His hotel, the…
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…
The Road to Cambridge
El camino de Cambridge
English translation by Tanya Huntington After resigning as Ambassador to India in protest of the military repression of university students that took place on October 2, 1968 in Tlatelolco Square,…
Cenizas de rosas
Durante los años noventa el panorama en México era muy complejo: el país estaba eufórico con el levantamiento del EZLN; un mundo virtual se miraba en el horizonte (aunque no…
Mariano Azuela and the “Brown Scare”
On March 13, Manuel Gutierrez organized a symposium titled Mariano Azuela y la narración de lo urgente. Primer centenario de Los de abajo. Among the participants were Maarten Van Delden,…
La traducción de Mildred Harnack Fish
Para Paula Gracias al libro Noticias de Berlín de Cees Noteboom conocí la historia de Mildred Harnack Fish. Mildred nació en Milwaukee en 1902, estudió literatura en la Universidad de…
In the spring of 1985, the Rice University Department of Spanish and Portuguese invited Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to deliver two lectures: “The culture of freedom” and “The total…
RAÍCES, ENREDOS, ENCUENTROS. El libro secreto de Francisco I. Madero
Traducción de Agustín Cadena Cuando el cometa Halley, esa estrella de la cola de quetzal, atravesó con su resplandor los cielos mexicanos, en 1910, auguraba no sólo el centenario de…
Cultures
In October 1841, Brantz Mayer, a thirty-two-year-old lawyer from Baltimore, Maryland, arrived in Mexico City to take his post as secretary to the US legation in Mexico. His hotel, the…
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…
The Road to Cambridge
El camino de Cambridge
English translation by Tanya Huntington After resigning as Ambassador to India in protest of the military repression of university students that took place on October 2, 1968 in Tlatelolco Square,…
Cenizas de rosas
Durante los años noventa el panorama en México era muy complejo: el país estaba eufórico con el levantamiento del EZLN; un mundo virtual se miraba en el horizonte (aunque no…
Mariano Azuela and the “Brown Scare”
On March 13, Manuel Gutierrez organized a symposium titled Mariano Azuela y la narración de lo urgente. Primer centenario de Los de abajo. Among the participants were Maarten Van Delden,…
La traducción de Mildred Harnack Fish
Para Paula Gracias al libro Noticias de Berlín de Cees Noteboom conocí la historia de Mildred Harnack Fish. Mildred nació en Milwaukee en 1902, estudió literatura en la Universidad de…
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