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London. Pamenar Press. 2023. 99 pages.
The prominent contemporary Mexican writer Alberto Chimal is known for a diverse, imaginative body of work that blurs the boundaries between the…
D. P. Snyder
December 14, 2023Illustration by fran_kie / Adobe StockIf I Must Die If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a…
Houston. Literal Publishing / Hablemos Escritoras. 2022. 167 pages. In titling her collection of essays Arrhythmias, Mexican poet, novelist, and essayist Angelina Muñiz-Huberman signals to the reader…
Photo: Jorge Prior Mexican writer Mónica Lavín recalls the tastes and places of her Mexico City neighborhood, tracing its changes through its food. When we moved to the house on Presidente…
In Colombian writer Octavio Escobar Giraldo’s first publication in English, it isn’t only the parishioner saying her Hail Marys. “I confess, Father. I confess that I am happy about the death…
Each Saturday evening, they would meet, braiding and unbraiding their hair in a synchronized rhythm. But then one night, everything changed. On Saturday nights, they braided. They all wore t…
