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Álvaro Enrigue

Álvaro Enrigue’s six books of fiction include La muerte de un instalador, Hypothermia, and, most recently, the novel Sudden Death. Daniel Hahn has translated more than thirty books from the Portuguese, Spanish and French. His translation, with Lisa Dillman, of Eduardo Halfon’s Mourning will be published in May. (May 2018)

Detail of Diego Rivera’s Disembarkation of the Spanish at Veracruz>, showing Hernán Cortés as a hunchback, 1951

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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