Florencia in Havana
Translated to English by Tanya Huntington Many moons ago, when Florencia met Fidel Castro at a film festival in Havana, she almost fainted. The Stallion, as his subjects called him,…
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Maverick 71
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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…
From The Book of Explanations Instinct Enraptured by Pain
English translation by Tanya Huntington The body stretches out in bed. Eyes open to gaze at the curtain and the thread of daylight that crosses over to the white wall.…
Can You Keep a Secret? Well, Translators Can’t
In fact, that is pretty much what we do: take the best-kept secrets of a literary tradition and reveal them to readers of other languages –generally, our own native tongues.…
15M and a (More or Less) Revolutionary Tradition
El 15M y la tradición (más o menos) revolucionaria
English translation by Tanya Huntington The movement that physically and symbolically occupied Puerta del Sol on May 15, 2011 seemed to be a spontaneous outburst that had emerged at a…
Una marioneta problema Sobre Pinocho, de Francisco Toledo
I Los niños abandonados se pierden en la selva negra, mientras unos desconocidos monstruosos los acechan con intenciones asesinas. Ese tipo de argumento, que hallamos en cuentos tan diversos como…
Nor Space, Nor Time
Pedro Tyler Translated to English by Tanya Huntington Rose Mary Salum: From the start of your career, the concept of what can be gauged, or how to measure the immeasurable,…
Step 8
Translated by Tanya Huntington At the dawn of a new era, one of the things people find hardest to do is apologize. The Judeo-Christian guilt complex has lost its punch.…
Instalaciones involuntarias
Download the PDF Here ¿Cuánto de lo que hacemos día con día corresponde a nuestra voluntad? Madrugamos porque tenemos que trabajar. O peor aún, porque antes de ir al trabajo…
Apropos Redeemers
English translation by Tanya Huntington The history of 20th century ideas contains fascinating moments that mark the crossover of certain revolutionary writers and thinkers into a different, new condition, one…
Un Rimbaud, un Wittgenstein, un Duchamp: Ulises Carrión
¿Cuál es la relevancia de Ulises Carrión para la poesía mexicana contemporánea? Diría primero que tenemos que indagar sobre quién fue el “desconocido más famoso de México”, como lo llama…