A long, long, time ago, in the time of the gods, two of them were in love with the same goddess. Que hermosa, with her shining white and blue-blue rainbow hair surrounded by stars circling her li…
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A stream in Pico de Orizaba, Veracruz. Photo by Anwar Vazquez/Flickrxxxviii Then they landed in large pastures, light aircraftsof gringo registrationfr…
Photo by Julian Böck/Unsplash(Heavy Water #74: going down)i.the version of my father’s brother’s drowning i was raised on and preferis the one in which his frie…![Kathy Vargas (b. 1950, San Antonio), Oración: Valentine’s Day / Day of the Dead [Hand], ca. 1989–90, gelatin silver print with hand-coloring, 24x20 in.](/sites/worldliteraturetoday.org/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/kathyvargas-25_2.jpg?itok=vrv3WdME)
Kathy Vargas (b. 1950, San Antonio), Oración: Valentine’s Day / Day of the Dead [Hand], ca. 1989–90, gelatin silver print with hand-coloring, 24x20 in.You must know, Lord, who was Ga…
Photo by Juan Di Nella/UnsplashI’m not the first to ask, but for a long time I’ve been wondering about one of the first dilemmas we’ve faced as a band: the question of language. To put it in terms of…
Illustration: Alec DempsterAgustín del Moral Tejeda was born in Las Choapas, Veracruz, in 1956. An accomplished writer, journalist, editor, translator, and activist, he currently lives and works in Xa…
The instrument did not choose this ceremony.My mother offered me five strings, nounswithout a grammar.I left my mother’s emptiness, to embrace my own.Whose darkness sits in the north,if no one can sin…
Mary Todd Lincoln. Photo: Everett Collection Historical / Alamy stock photoPresident Abraham Lincoln gave the order to execute thirty-eight Dakota Indians in Mankato, Minnesota, for their actions in t…
Photo by Jordan Whitt/UnsplashU k’a’ajsaj a tuukulKin k’áatiktuntimbáe’Bix a máan a ta’ak a wichtu bo’oy táanxel t’aanilKa’ a wa’al ma’atan a na’atik u t’aan Yum Iik’. A yuume’tu yu’ubaj a tsikba…![Kathy Vargas (b. 1950, San Antonio), Oración: Valentine’s Day / Day of the Dead [Rib Cage], ca. 1989–90, gelatin silver print with hand-coloring, 24x20 in. Vargas writes, “This series began as a remembrance of friends who recently died of AIDS.”](/sites/worldliteraturetoday.org/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/kathyvargas-22_2.jpg?itok=LpxqDJFy)
Kathy Vargas (b. 1950, San Antonio), Oración: Valentine’s Day / Day of the Dead [Rib Cage], ca. 1989–90, gelatin silver print with hand-coloring, 24x20 in. Vargas writes, “This serie…
iThere is no possible house any longer.If there ever wasa first one mentioned,she is now in ruins and does not await returns,or transient guests still confusedwho arrive weary to scrutinize the dustan…
Arturo Montoto (Cuba), En algún lugar de la ciudad, 2015, oil on canvas, 60x60 cmThe idea for this Gulf feature of World Literature Today goes back almost fifteen years to end-of-the…
