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…
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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…
A DEAD ELEPHANT
UN ELEFANTE MUERTO
English translation by Tanya Huntington Manuel encountered a dead elephant lying on top of his bed. He held his nose to shield himself from the rotten stench that swamped the…
Two Poems
Translated by Tanya Huntington I DRINK FROM YOUR MOUTH I drink a moment from your mouth, light, wind. I drink your gaze from your mouth, your steps, your song. I…
Five Movements from a Gesture in Mid-Air
Translated by Tanya Huntington 12:56 Course of time foreshadowed over folds of age: life, the settled, the unsettled (a history already foreshadowed by contraction, a reality that shall become fiction:…
RULFO = ARREOLA
Last week during a radio interview, the eminent literary critic Christopher Domínguez Michael postulated that if the present globalizing trend continues, within fifteen years or so we may not even…
Three Poems
Tres poemas
RES NULLIUS Those who alleged a marked distinction between life and death were wrong; in fact, I’ve been hauling molecules around for forty years that, in isolation, are far older…