The unbearable whiteness of immigration policy: How political expediency has shaped racial perceptions of Mexican immigrants
This week, the world looked on in shock, despair, and outrage as US Immigration and Customs Enforcement enacted a new immigration policy that can be described only as ghoulish, separating children,… Read more »
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Norway’s gonna save the printed word
In these trying times—times characterized in this country by the imminent destruction of the Environmental Protection Agency (despite rising temperatures and tides), the precarious fate of our National Parks, and… Read more »
Mexico City’s Aeromoto library becomes a cultural hub
In 2015 in Mexico City, four friends opened a small library in a private home. Now it’s quickly becoming an integral part of cultural life in the neighborhood of Juárez. Called Aeromoto, the… Read more »
El Chapo—jailed and “depressed”—is gifted a book by his guards
During Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s last stint in prison, which lasted 16 months (before, you know, he escaped through an underground tunnel), the cartel kingpin was granted 46 conjugal visits. As… Read more »
In a region dominated by Mexican drug cartels, a new bookstore
Apatzingán, the capital of Mexico’s mountainous Tierra Caliente region, has long been a stronghold for drug trafficking cartels—which means that if you’ve heard of it, it’s probably from the media… Read more »
Gabriel Garcia Marquez hospitalized
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was hospitalized in Mexico City last week, the Associated Press reports (via NPR). The writer’s son Gonzalo released a statement, in conjunction with the Secretary… Read more »
How have fixed book prices affected Mexican bookselling?
It’s been five years since the Mexican senate voted to fix book prices, but in a recent speech, Marcelo Uribe, director of the publishing house Ediciones Era and vice-president of… Read more »
Mexican blogger killed, blog shut down
In a disturbing development for the early days of a new administration in Mexico, journalist Jaime González Dominguez, editor of the website Ojinaga Noticias, was killed on Sunday in Oijinaga,… Read more »