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We live in a complicated era. In issue number 10 of Literal magazine, we put the spotlight on the importance of faith and religious belief in the modern world. In…

Our previous issue was dedicated to boredom. While we were planning it, we never expected there would be unsettling similarities between the phantoms of tedium and the manifestations of evil…

This issue of Literal is dedicated to the ghosts of tedium, Esther as an unexpected anticlimax to the hopes and fears of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Yvon Grenier “Tedio…

"There is no vocabulary to name a world without God” – says Salman Rushdie-, but in the present time the idea of God can be associated with dogmatism. This is…

"All that is solid melts into air"- Karl Marx's famous dictum about modernity is perhaps truer today than ever before. This issue brings together three essays about the problems of…

Globalization manifests itself not only in a complex of world-wide hegemonies and imperialistic assertions, but also in cultural exchanges and in socioeconomic and political realms. In an attempt to sort…

Over three decades ago, the author of The Philanthropic Ogre indicated that writers cannot shirk politics: "that would be worse than spitting into the wind: it would be spitting on…

Recently, the Department of Hispanic Studies at Rice University organized a symposium called Mexico and the United States: New Positions and Counter Positions under the direction of Dr. Maarten van…

This summer issue has been marked by two absences: Salvador Elizondo and Juan Soriano. Proust used to say that there are two kinds of deaths: the physical and the one…

The issue which we begin the year with is accompanied by the most recent award won by Literal. In the 2005 CELJ Award results given annually by the Council of…

This publication has, as its central theme, exile in its different forms, fatal or elected. It is a recurring theme that covers a great part of contemporary literature and other…

A poet's voice emerges clearly when it is not interpreted through the voice of another, or when it is not constrained by the rules of an ideological space. This way…