The Mexico City Reader

Contributors

Contributors   has written articles about contemporary Mexican art and literature. His New Tendencies in Mexican Art: The 1990s will be published in 2004 by Palgrave. He teaches cultural studies and Latin American literature at Princeton University.  , a Belgian artist, has lived in Mexico City since the 1980s. He has worked extensively with Mexican rotulistas (commercial sign painters) who produce multiple copies of his original, small-format paintings depicting surreal or absurd situations. He has had solo shows at Berlin’s KunstWerke (2002), London’s Lisson Gallery (2001), and New York’s Jack Tilton Gallery (1997), and his work has been shown at the Venice Biennale (2001) and the Istanbul Biennial (1999).    teaches literature at Mexico City’s National Autonomous University. He has written extensively about Mexico City in his nonfiction books, which include Función de medianoche (Ediciones Era, 1981), Cuando todas las chamacas se pusieron medias nylon (Enjambre, 1987), Los mexicanos se pintan solos (Pórtico de la Ciudad de México, 1990), Un chavo bien helado (Ediciones Era, 1990), Se visten novias (Cal y Arena, 1992), and Álbum de pesadillas mexicanas (Ediciones Era, 2002).  , teaches literature at Mexico City’s National Autonomous University and has published the novels Amor propio (Tusquets , 1992) and Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra (Tusquets, 1999). His nonfiction works include El surrealismo y lo real maravilloso americano (Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1976), La épica sordina (Cal y arena, 1990), México, ciudad de papel (Tusquets, 1997), and Ensayo de contraconquista (Tusquets, 2001). His book El viaje sedentario (Tusquets, 1994) received the Prix des deux Océans at Biarritz’s International Festival. 331     edits the weekly Suplemento cultural de Novedades, one of Mexico City’s most prestigious literary reviews. He was a regular contributor to Vuelta, the journal edited by Octavio Paz. His publications include the collections of short stories Cuentos para vencer a la muerte (Los presentes, 1955), La lucha con la pantera (Universidad Veracruzana, 1959), Ven caballo gris y otras narraciones (Universidad Veracruzana, 1959), and Tren de historias (Aldus, 1998); a book of film criticism, Miradas al cine (Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1972); a collection of interviews with Luis Buñuel, Luis Buñuel: prohibido asomarse al interior (Centro Nacional de las Artes, 1996); and a volume of literary essays, Libertades imaginarias: la literatura como juego (Aldus, 2001).   is the author of numerous books of essays, poems, and short stories, including Adrede ( Joaquín Mortiz, 1970), Gatuperio (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1978), Enroque (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1986), Picos pardos (Vuelta, 1987), Grosso modo (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988), Mundonuevos (El Tucán de Virginia, 1991), Alebrijes (El Equilibrista, 1992), Una ventana inmensa: antología poética (Vuelta, 1993), Ton y son (Conaculta, 1996), Anticuerpos (Ediciones sin nombre, 1998), and Fosa escéptica (Ave del paraíso, 2002). Poemas/poems, a selection of his poetry translated by Mónica de la Torre, was published in 2000 by Lost Road Publishers.    is a critic, translator, and journalist who lived in Mexico City from 1987 to 1997. She is a regular contributor to the Spanish daily El país and the London Review of Books, and her essays have appeared in Flash Art, the Guardian, Artes de México, Milenio, and ViceVersa. She has lived in Seville, Spain, since 1997.   wrote about popular culture in Mexico, from boxing to beach-going families. His complete works were published in 2002 by Editorial Océano, including Diálogos mexicanos (1975), Acapulco (1978), and Las glorias del gran púas (1978), his celebrated text about the boxer Rubén Olivares.    has worked as an editor for various cultural publications, including the journals Origina and Etcétera, and the Web site reforma.com. She is a frequent contributor to El Ángel, the weekly literary review published by Reforma, and her essays and articles have appeared in Letras libres, Cambio, Reforma, El huevo, unomásuno, Milenio diario, and La Jornada. Currently she serves on the editorial board of Travesías, a cultural journal. 332    is a frequent contributor to both the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. Her book Samba, an account of the year she spent with the impoverished carnival-makers of Brazil, was nominated for a 1990 National Book Critics Circle award. The Heart That Bleeds and Looking for History are collections of her essays from the New Yorker and the New...