Bakwa 03 November 30, 2012 Mexico occupies a unique place in Latin American writing; writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Roberto Bolaño, Gabriel García Márquez, Graham Greene, John Steinbeck, and William S. Burroughs lived in and were influenced by…
Editorial 03
For many, the “boom generation” of Latin American writing (1960s and 1970s) which ushered in huge international recognition of Latin America serves as a mixed blessing because, on the one hand it produced writers like as Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar,…
Editorial 03 (en Español)
Traducción Fer de la Cruz Para muchos, la “generación del boom” en la literatura latinoamericana (1960s y 70s), que recibió gran reconocimiento, resulta una bendición no exenta de paradoja ya que, por una parte, produjo escritores de la talla de…
Pueblo Magico by Monserrat Vazquez del Mercado
Monserrat Vazquez del Mercado is an artist whose work include traditional and digital Illustration, animation and texture design in several projects. Her work mixes stylish and nostalgic themes. She is based in Guadalajara, Mexico. MVR Illustration: mvr.moonfruit.com http://monsevr.deviantart.com/gallery/
Forwards by Jesse Tangen-Mills
For the next 60 seconds, set aside whatever you’re doing and take this opportunity! Let’s see if Satan can stop this. My grandfather sends forwards. I don’t think many other 87-years-olds use the internet, although in the future they…
Jack Little : Sometimes foreign writers living in Mexico misconstrue the country in their work
Jack Little (b. 1987) is a writer from Newcastle, currently based in Mexico City. He has forthcoming poems in Wasafiri, Ink, Sweat and Tears and The Barehands Anthology. He is the founding editor of The Ofi Press Magazine, which…
Visual Art by Eleanor L. Bennet
Eleanor Leonne Bennett is an internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland trust and Postal Heritage. Her photography…
Three Poems by Margarita Ríos-Farjat
Yearning Translated by Karenina Osnaya A desert That today is still called Tacubaya. Nothing remains José Emilio Pacheco It is said by José Emilio that in Tacubaya nothing remained. Octavio Paz always longed for the Mixcoac that…
Four Poems by Ingrid Valencia
Translated by Jack Little Intact Certainty is the skin reflected in the water They are the hands that sail in the deep until one denies the horizon sitting on the white stone of old age There is still time…
‘Mexican’ Literature by Raúl Bravo Aduna
The words “Mexican Literature” make me feel uneasy. I hardly know what to do when I come across them. And it is not that I’m not a “good Mexican reader”—whatever that means—, but there’s something about that particular literary label…