Issue 6 · Mexico City
- Editor’s Note
The Orphan Megacity
“Feeling this small takes getting used to.”
- Fiction
Shoes: Andante with Variations
by Margo Glantz
“What type of shoe might Vera Nabokov have worn?”
- Fiction
The Stuttering Terrorist
by Anonymous
“I had always imagined you to be a bitter enemy of the Jewish people.”
- Interview
A Conversation with Yoshua Okón
“Once you are laughing, you are already implicated.”
- Fiction
Light
by Sabina Berman
“Let the children be the first to see the Future, he said.”
- Portfolio
I Photograph to Remember
by Pedro Meyer
- Essay
The Quiet Lives of Chiki Weisz
by Chloe Aridjis
“He created a life in Mexico but never really unpacked.”
- Interview
Autobiography of My Face: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans
“Each city is many cities: a diagram of one’s own face.”
- Portfolio
Adolescence
by Monica Ruzansky
- Poetry
by Jenny Asse Chayo
- Fiction
Castles on Earth
by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
- Essay
Walk on the Wild Side
by David Lida
- Portfolio
Life on the Tracks
by Katie Orlinsky
- Poetry
Shaharit
by Gloria Gervitz
- Interview
A Conversation with Gloria Gervitz
“I was simply Mexican and Jewish—there was no contradiction.”
“She has forgotten the world. She has erased memory.”
“No two days were alike and I was never bored.”
