LITERATURE

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Salvador Carrasco has written numerous essays and poems for acclaimed publications. Read his pieces, read his mind. (Find published work on Academia and Senses of Cinema.)

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Anatomy of a Breakup or Her Life to Fix: The Worst Person in the World (Senses of Cinema)

Among the thousands of books that have been written trying to elucidate Hitler, there is a remarkable one by Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil.

Luis Buñuel’s El in the Face of Cultural Appropriation and the #MeToo Movement (Senses of Cinema)

Before the first consumer-grade videotapes came out in the mid-1970s, it stands to reason that movies were not that readily available for the general public.

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea (Senses of Cinema)

Recently I saw what will most likely be my favourite film of the past year and foreseeable future, especially in light of the pandemic: The Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul, 2019), from the Czech Republic.

Elegy to my mentor and friend, Carlos Biro, published in Mexican newspapers.

Recalling Maria Felix: Frailty, Thy Name Is Now Woman (LA Times)

‘Frailty, thy name is woman’ When Shakespeare wrote those words for ‘Hamlet’, he could not have imagined there would someday be a woman such as Maria Felix.

The Mestiza Scheherazade (LA Times)

Sara Rosario Gonzalez is a 32-year-old restorer of rare books at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles who unexpectedly finds herself on the verge of a heartbreak, but as Yxta Maya Murray shows in her latest novel, “The Conquest,” the human yearning to overcome loss can sometimes be the inspiration that leads to great art.