"...it’s an idea of displacement that has animated my work. I get bored always doing the same thing. On top of that, I…"

"What I find is never definitive—that would be a pretension and an idiocy."

"Catharsis consists in getting out from under something that’s been there constantly, buzzing around irksomely in your…"

"The debt I have with my heritage becomes a declaration of love for what I’ve lost..."

"A language is historical memory. Sometimes it preserves information and turns of phrase that people have forgotten, b…"

"Ladino is a unique cultural and linguistic phenomenon. I think that well beyond the question of community belonging, …"

"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…"