Aristotle on the Metro
Tony Wood: Forgetting Mexico City, 24 February 2022
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
by Juan Villoro, translated by Alfred MacAdam.
Pantheon, 346 pp., £27, March 2021,978 1 5247 4888 3 Show More
by Juan Villoro, translated by Alfred MacAdam.
Pantheon, 346 pp., £27, March 2021,
Battles in the Desert
by José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Katherine Silver.
New Directions, 54 pp., £10, June 2021,978 0 8112 3095 7 Show More
by José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Katherine Silver.
New Directions, 54 pp., £10, June 2021,
“... sounds, smells, too many historical epochs mingled together, too many possible books to write. Juan Villoro – novelist, critic and newspaper columnist – was born and raised in Mexico City, but he doesn’t try to encompass it. Instead he offers a fragmentary personal account that combines memoir, history, reportage and satire. His ... ”