Nicolas Medina Mora

Aug 5, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Nicolas Medina Mora

In today’s United States, at least in liberal and leftist circles, certain aspects of identity are understood to be a matter of choice—as well as a battleground for freedom. I don’t live in America anymore, but over the course of the decade I spent there, I learned that a person’s decision to identify as Tejano, Chicano, or Latine, rather than as Texan, Mexican American, or Hispanic, has philosophical and political implications that reach far beyond semantics.

May 21, 2024 | nytimes.com | América del Norte |Nicolas Medina Mora

AMÉRICA DEL NORTE, by Nicolás Medina MoraThe grandiose title of Nicolás Medina Mora's first novel, "América del Norte" ("North America"), gives a good sense of its ironic tone and its unabashed desire to include everything on the continent, past and present: Hernán Cortés, Montezuma, NAFTA, the war on drugs, Trump, AMLO, José Vasconcelos, Alfonso Reyes, the murdered students of Ayotzinapa - even the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

May 7, 2024 | lithub.com | Nicolas Medina Mora

Some decades ago, when Mexico was still ruled by an authoritarian regime, one or another president remarked that the only two establishments one could be sure to find in every town in the country, no matter how small or remote, were a Catholic parish and an outpost of the state-owned store that sold subsidized milk.

May 7, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Nicolas Medina Mora |Kristin Hannah |Barbara Kingsolver

A debut from an author to keep on your radar, assured, darkly funny, and impeccably written. A piercing critique of the shallowness of academia and the soufflélike weightlessness of American culture. As romans à clef go, this doesn’t get much more clef-y. A young Mexican journalist (like Medina Mora), Sebastián Arteaga y Salazar, gets a scholarship to Iowa (like Medina Mora), and, on graduating, spurns residence in the U.S. to return to Mexico City (like Medina Mora).

May 7, 2024 | themillions.com | Nicolas Medina Mora

Against ‘Latin American Literature’ Diego Rivera, “From the Conquest to 1930,” History of Mexico murals, 1929–30, Palacio Nacional, Mexico City The region, we’re told, extends from the deserts of Sonora to the straits of Tierra del Fuego, encompassing 7.7 million square miles that are home to 660 million people who share two Latinate languages: Spanish and Portuguese.