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Five Movements from a Gesture in Mid-Air

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

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

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…
Mexico City: The End is Near

Mexico City: The End is Near

Years ago, my fiancé from Mexico accompanied me on a road trip to explore my remote origins in the heartland of the United States. As we drove along the interstate,…
The Road to Cambridge

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,…
Presidential Fiction

Presidential Fiction

Would citizens in the United States consider casting a vote for the author of their favorite novel during next year’s presidential election? Because their neighbors in Latin America have a…
Constellations of Reading

Constellations of Reading

Something mortifying has reared its ugly head on our social networks: spring cleaning. Friends of mine have actually taken to boasting about their perfectly groomed bookshelves online. “It’s only been…