That Mexican Thing
What does Mexico mean to the average US citizen? Jumping beans? Speedy González? The lovely señorita from the Corona beer tray, perhaps? Does it conjure up the image of the…
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The Dark Mirror of Neoliberalism: On Dreamland by Sam Quinones
Mexico currently performs a well-leveraged role as the main supplier in the U.S. drug trade, a multi-billion-dollar business that has bypassed the world’s longest political land border (and one of…
To Vacate One’s Own Skin
Deshabitar la propia piel
English translation by Tanya Huntington To vacate one’s own skin, to abandon it, thoughtlessly forgotten as it were, draped on the back of any given chair, perhaps over there,…
Relevance of the Interdisciplinary Panel of Independent Experts (GIEI)
LA IMPORTANCIA DEL GIEI
Translated by Tanya Huntington When someone is in dire need of results yet realizes, “I cannot do this on my own,” he or she seeks the support of an expert…
A Devastating Report
Ayotzinapa. Demoledor informe del GIEI
Translated by Tanya Huntington “Don’t leave us here all alone,” was the tearful cry of the parents and relatives of 43 missing students enrolled in the rural teacher’s school of…
Two Countries
Translated by Tanya Huntington Sabina Berman gave the following keynote speech before members of the PEN Club in New York on April 27, 2016 during this year's literature festival dedicated…
On turbulence and possibility: A view from the Acropolis
“Things are difficult,” is the phrase one hears most often in response to the usual polite queries as to how things are going in Greece. Following a decade of unrelenting…
Marianne Moore en Cuernavaca
Pura López Colomé; Imperfecta semejanza (UNAM, 2016) A estas alturas de nuestra existencia post-babélica, ya todo el mundo sabe que no hay que confiar en los traductores. Pero lo que…
Adam Wiseman’s Ventanas
Last week, I talked my husband Francisco into helping me lug a six-foot photograph of someone else’s living room across ten blocks of our Mexico City neighborhood. The photograph had…
The tall tale of justice
English translation by Tanya Huntington Over the past few days, we have watched an elaborate, deliberate, appalling story unfold on the vast majority of Mexico’s media and social networks. The…
Los mejores libros del 2015
En esta ocasión, consultamos con diversos escritores y colaboradores de Literal para que nos enviaran una lista de los mejores títulos del 2015 según el criterio de cada uno. Estos fueron los libros…
THE RELIC
Translated by Tanya Huntington There had always been sibling rivalry between Jacco and me. He was ten years older, which meant that from the time we were children, he was…