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Mexican Poetics: A Lecture-Performance

Celebrated Mexican poet, essayist, and editor Luis Felipe Fabre offers a vivid and insightful multimedia crash course on contemporary Mexican poetry. Enjoy an evening of music, live performance, and… More

Women of Mexico

Celebrate the role that brave and uncompromising women writers play in Mexican fiction, poetry, journalism, and playwriting. A rare opportunity to hear from some of Mexico’s leading contemporary voices,… More

Cuba in Two Acts

As the United States begins to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba, a more complex view of the island is becoming more available to Americans whose access to the island… More

Elena Ferrante: Frantumaglia

Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has become a worldwide sensation with her Neapolitan novels. Ferrante’s longtime English-language translator joins Festival authors to discuss the work of this famously enigmatic author.… More

Free Expression, A Reality Check

Mexico’s sensitive sociopolitical issues are often presented as solely Mexico’s challenges, obscuring the roles played by other Latin American countries and the United States. This public debate is the… More

Narco-Narratives: A Lecture-Performance

Sexo! Violencia! Drogas! Is there such a thing as narcoliterature? Or, does “narco” inevitably trump “literature”? In this lecture-performance, professor and award-winning author Oswaldo Zavala charts the evolution of… More