Year One of AMLO’s Mexico
As we did a year ago during his campaign, Carlos Bravo Regidor and I tried to cut through the highly polarized conversation around Andrés Manuel López Obrador to get to […]
Category Archives: Mexico
Historia de las exposiciones en México
I gave a talk at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, part of UNAM. It was the closing speech for a conference on the “Historia de las exposiciones en México.” […]
AMLO’s Sweeping Victory
In the wake of AMLO’s sweeping victory in Mexico’s elections, Carlos Bravo Regidor and I have returned to Dissent to analyze the results. It was a strikingly thorough victory, he […]
Interviews about Mexican elections
I spoke with Nathaniel Parish Flannery about the upcoming Mexican elections for Forbes and tried out my “if you must compare AMLO to someone, he’s more Jimmy Carter than Hugo […]
A New Hope for Mexico?: A close look at Mexico’s 2018 elections and the candidacy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
UPDATE 07/06/2018: After the election results, Carlos and I returned to Dissent to analyze the results. My friend Carlos Bravo Regidor and I grew frustrated with the international coverage of […]
Review of Renata Keller, “Mexico’s Cold War”
My review of Renata Keller’s very fine book has now appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies 48, no. 4 (November 2016): 868-869. Renata Keller, Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, […]
A review of Jorge García Robles, “At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico”
This review will appear in the Journal of Latin American Studies; at least until it does, I’m reasonably certain that I can host it here. Jorge García-Robles, At the End […]
The Two Lefts of Jorge Castañeda
Update 5/3/2016: this essay has been published in Spanish by Nexos. I’m honored to be making my debut in Dissent, a magazine I greatly admire. To my mind, Irving Howe navigated […]
The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores
An article I’ve written, “The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores,” was published in the Journal of Latin American Studies vol 48., no. 2 (May 2016). It is available at […]
Arriving in Texas
Sunrise over El Paso and Juárez, our new home.
