"As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activi…"

"Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family -- Jewish o…"

"I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches w…"

"As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can…"

"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…"