Excuses, Excuses
At what point do we recognize an enemy as not merely adversarial, but existential?
Exorcisms in Style
When we talk about style in writing we're talking about branding
Promotional
A young man is embroiled in a minor dispute on a bus.
The First Man
Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes's final novel is a covertly optimistic satire of modern Mexico.
Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)
Domestic work today means to literally give over your own life to that of others (kids and husband), to their spaces, to their times, to their rhythms.
We paralyze the everyday reproduction of the working class
from this struggle that built a first breakwater of defense to let us catch our breath and keep our heads above the flood of labor, from this struggle we had to begin.
Destroy yourselves as our bosses. Destroy yourselves as the inexhaustible vacuums of our domestic labor.
When the flowers of the garden no longer smell sweet, when the leaves refuse to bloom and the birds to sing, the bosses of the garden go into crisis.
Women in armed struggle
The state is astonished. Men are astonished. We are astonished that they are astonished. And now we come to the problem.
What the hell is the family?
it is them, it is women, above all, who have an objective interest in ruining this condition
The Madman's Interpreters
An interview with the translators of Raymond Roussel, the most influential 20th century French writer you’ve never heard of