Books
Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis
How did poets and artists read Freud’s theories in post-revolutionary Mexico? Salvador Novo read Freud’s Three Essays to engage in a queer modernity; Frida Kahlo and Octavio Paz read Moses and Monotheism to invent a new theory of Mexican identity; Gregorio Lemercier read Freud… to put his Benedictine monastery in group therapy!
Mexican Modernity
A discussion of the Mexican Avant-Garde’s fascination with machines, including cameras, radios, typewriters, and building technologies. The cast of characters includes Tina Modotti, Mariano Azuela, Jaime Torres Bodet, Salvador Novo, the Estridentistas, José Vasconcelos, and Federico Sánchez Fogarty.
Heterodoxos mexicanos
An discussion of the ten most eccentric writers in twentieth-century Mexican literature: strange figures, like Kyn Taniya or Sánchez Fogarty, who do not fit neatly into the literary canon.
New Tendencies in Mexican Art
An overview of the most innovative art projects of the 1990s, including photo-conceptual experiments, web projects, installations and performances.
México DF: Lecturas para paseantes
Spanish edition of The Mexico City Reader, published by Editorial Turner in Spain.
Las artes de la ciudad
Essays on Mexico City’s visual culture and recent experimental artistic projects.
Mexico: Chroniques Littéraires
French translation of The Mexico City Reader published by Éditions Autrement.
The Mexico City Reader
An anthology of chronicles about daily life in Mexico City from the 1960s to the present. Includes essays by Carlos Monsiváis, Juan Villoro, Jorge Ibarguengoitia, and Elena Poniatowska.
