How to Travel Without Seeing
Translated by Jeffrey Lawrence 3. Montevideo, Mate in the Cathedral Buenos Aires’s Aeroparque. Midday. As I walk toward the ticket counter to fly to Montevideo, I realize that for the…
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Ojos en el cielo, muertos en la tierra
Apuntes sobre drones en el cine Desde el 2 de noviembre de 2002, los drones o aviones a control remoto dirigidos por el ejército estadounidense y la CIA comenzaron a…
God is Round
Translated by Thomas Bunstead The Football and the Head 1. DIFFERENT PASSIONS I imagine that at the end of a chess tournament, Karpov and Kasparov probably start seeing things: people’s…
Eduardo Chirinos, in memoriam
Igual que cualquier mala noticia, ésta me dio en el estómago y la sentí casi –y por decirlo así– como un golpe inmerecido. Creyendo que yo estaría enterada, Gerardo Cárdenas…
El nuevo western de Quentin Tarantino
The Hateful Eight, el octavo filme de Quentin Tarantino, es un western. No es una secuela de Django Unchained (2013), su película anterior, como se creía antes de que se filtrara en…
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…
Reading Carlos Slim. A look inside the library of one of the richest men in the world
A few weeks ago, during a series of interviews, business mogul Carlos Slim Helú allowed Mexican essayist Diego Enrique Osorno access to one of his favorite places: his library. For…
Ghosting on the Río Grande
Lupita stands at the stove stirring a pot. She’s wearing a white Playtex bra, a terry cloth robe, and grey polyester pants with an elastic waistband. Her skin…
20 MAY
I woke up with a cold; my head kills me at times. I get by with aspirin, and that has allowed me to do many things today. I recall my…
Target in the NIGHT
It was a cool Sunday afternoon. Men from the farms and estancias from throughout the district lined up against the fence that separated the track from the surrounding houses. A…
The Best of Mexican Films in 2013
Throughout 2013, Mexican films, even though irregular in their releases, proved to have regained some health. This year, the number of Mexican productions has grown significantly, and more importantly, the…
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…