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Originally published in 1994, Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon, translated by David Shook (Deep Vellum, 2021), takes place in an unnamed…
Mexico
December 15, 2021
October 27, 2021Female patient, La Castañeda, ca. 1915–20 / Fototeca Nacional, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México Men in finely cut suits and women in elegant dresses gather before a gat…
November 18, 2020Tonalmeyotl is from Atzacoaloya, Chilapa de Álvarez, in the Mexican state of Guerrero / Photos courtesy of the author My Náhuatl They say my tongue Náhuatl has had her head…
July 6, 2020Photo by Alex Pasarelu / Unsplash A new mother in Mexico contemplates the future—for her daughter, for all of us. On February 1, 2020, as I was giving birth in Mexico…
September 6, 2019Photo: Sandra Barba & Edited by Hugo González In Mexico’s “glitter revolution,” women stand in solidarity, protesting escalating violence against women. “This march belo…
May 14, 2019Humpback whale / Photo by Wade Tregaskis / Flickr 7. For about a minute you spin and the world shifts galaxies. What germinates in your flesh is the viper’s dream. You slither through the…
September 7, 2017Grave at the US/Mexico border taken at a cemetery near Anthony, New Mexico, July 19, 2015 / Photo by Lanie ElizabethThe following is an excerpt from part 2 of a four-part poem called “The…
August 31, 2016Ignacio Padilla (date unknown) / Source: Ibero 90.9 Translator’s note: Mexican writer Ignacio Padilla (1968–2016) was killed in a car accident on August 20 while traveling throu…
August 30, 2016On the Mexico City subway (2016) / Still from a film by Carolina RuedaUniversidad–Indios Verdesby Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza¿Para qué forzar los sueños y las pesadillassi aquí todo convulsiona ha…
June 10, 2016Muhammad Ali signing autographs for Volendam women. Wikimedia CommonsNews, Reviews, and InterviewsNPR’s Juan Vidal writes about Muhammad Ali’s poetic side and his skill for linguist…
October 21, 2015Josías López Gómez. Photo by Dr. Arturo Arias/ www.utexas.eduI’m in Guadalajara as one of three judges for the Premio de Literaturas Indígenas de las Américas (Prize for Indigenous Literatur…
December 22, 2014in memoriam Kenny Kahn From the archive of Eugenia Huerta Bravo.A trio of important Mexican writers was born in 1914: Octavio Paz, José Revueltas, and Efraín Huerta. In the English-langu…
April 24, 2014Photo: Spanish Ministry of CultureThe 2013 recipient of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Elena Poniatowska Amor, delivered her acceptance speech yesterday (April 23, 2014) on the anniv…
January 31, 2014What a week! The links below are full of the excitement, pleasure, and sadness that marked this week’s literary news. Most notably, find information about the death of José Emilio Pacheco, who passed…
April 22, 2013Retrato de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. por Miguel Cabrea, 1750. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–95) was born in San Miguel Nepantla, Tepetli…
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