Valeria Luiselli

Jan 15, 2025 | everand.com | Yásnaya Elena Gil |Valeria Luiselli |Heather Cleary

Photo by Mario Castañeda Sánchez / Wikimedia Commons Guest editor’s introduction:In this reflection, Mixe scholar and activist Yásnaya Elena Gil turns her powerful intellect on the concept of innovation, revealing how mainstream notions of technological progress are conditioned by the values of capitalism and proposing an alternative model.

Jan 14, 2025 | guernicamag.com | Yásnaya Elena Gil |Heather Cleary |Valeria Luiselli

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Jul 20, 2024 | countercraft.substack.com | Valeria Luiselli |Lincoln Michel

A couple weeks ago, I watched a movie I haven’t stopped thinking about: Tampopo, a 1985 Japanese comedy written and directed by Juzo Itami. The loose plot involves a trucker who helps a woman turn her crappy ramen spot into a first-class restaurant. Itami called it his “Ramen Western,” riffing on the Spaghetti Western. It’s filled with pastiches and parodies of American action films, and does feel at times like Sergio Leone processed through a Monty Python filter. It’s also quite lovely and moving.

Apr 1, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Valeria Luiselli |Daniel Paris |Eduardo Rabasa |Daniel Saldaana Parais

Daniel Saldaña París, trans. from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman. Catapult, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-646-22231-5Novelist París (Ramifications) reflects in these striking essays on the complicated relationship between place and identity. Traversing the cities “that have marked my life,” the author explores in the title essay how he spent his 20s trying to make it as a writer in Mexico City before his life briefly unraveled.

Jan 23, 2024 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Lindsay Hunter |Randa Jarrar |Valeria Luiselli

On a long, meandering road trip—especially one with no particular destination or strict timeline for arrival—something hypnotic happens. You become attuned to the voices on the radio, the strange grammar of the signs, and the variations in the unfamiliar landscape in ways you never do during more conventional travel. I’d posit that it has something to do with being in constant motion and freed of immediate obligation.