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“... On​ 11 December 2006, Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico, appeared on television dressed as a military commander and announced that he was ‘declaring war’ on organised crime. It was an unforgettable and grotesque gesture, which won him an invaluable spike in popularity. The news was unexpected: it was the first time his National Action Party (PAN) had used the militaristic liturgy of Mexico’s previous post-revolution governments ...”

“... of the conquered gods; say we’ll give them a very nice altar there.’This is the subject of Álvaro Enrigue’s adventurous new novel, You Dreamed of Empires, almost all of which is devoted to the first day or so that Cortés and his men spent in Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). They were guests in the palace, but when the floating city raised its ...”

“... fiction and history that puts Binet among such figures as Emmanuel Carrère, Javier Cercas and Álvaro Enrigue. And on another it’s an exercise in pure intellectual slapstick of the kind that French humourists do well, though if Binet has also read Ellis’s Glamorama (1998), a parodic conspiracy thriller about fashion models, then it’s possible ...”