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 […]
Category Archives: Mexico
A New Hope for Mexico?: A close look at Mexico’s 2018 elections and the candidacy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
My friend Carlos Bravo Regidor and I grew frustrated with the international coverage of the upcoming Mexican elections, in which the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador looks like the likely […]
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.
