"Without his walks, the evenings were not the same, and my sidewalks were full of fruit husks, peanut shells, and ugly…"

"For the majority of readers, Latin American fantastic literature operates under the tutelage of the great masters: Jo…"

"(What Mexican books deserve greater attention in the United States?) I read Spanish too slowly to have any expertise …"

"here’s a very short list of Latin women novelists I think should have been considered part of the Boom…Mexico: Elena …"

"A visit to the Mexican literary world recalls Dante’s procession through the inferno. I don’t want to point the finge…"

"Carmen Boullosa is, in my opinion, a true master."

"Carmen Boullosa is as playful as a mischievous Puck, making a mockery of every stuffy convention with a powerful imag…"

"I am dead, my king," I wrote to you, meaning that defeat had overtaken me, even before the battle at Actium. "I am de…"

"Everything was bound to change, I realized, when I started to imagine and couldn't stop imagining that the virulent o…"

"if the novel has a power, it’s to touch that consciousness behind words, or before words. There is a kind of poet tha…"