Álvaro Enrigue

Álvaro Enrigue is a Mexican writer and professor. He lives in New York and teaches at Hofstra. His latest novel, You Dreamed of Empires, was published in January. (January 2024)

The Discovery of Europe

A new book investigates the lives of the hundreds of thousands of indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the sixteenth century—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

by Caroline Dodds Pennock

January 18, 2024 issue

The Curse of Cortés

Matthew Restall’s ‘When Montezuma Met Cortés’

When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History

by Matthew Restall

May 24, 2018 issue

Letter

Philip L. Russell

Not So Identical

July 19, 2018 issue

Magical Mexican Streets

Although it holds Trotsky’s bones, the street of Viena is short and unremarkable, except maybe for its jacaranda trees, which bloom in late February and produce a hallucinatory purple carpet of dead flowers.

April 25, 2017

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