The Great Whitexican Novel December 23, 2024
Full disclosure: Nicolás Medina Mora once did a mean tweet about my book. He hadn’t read it, but he criticized it publicly anyway, dismissing me as just another gringo who didn’t understand Mexico.This hurt my feelings. But I didn’t fight back. Inste...
A Son of Mexico’s Elite Bids for Literary Stardom April 24, 2024
“There are different categories of fancy Mexican,” says one character in Nicolás Medina Mora’s debut novel, América del Norte.These include fresas (“harmless, except for their accents, which are known to cause aneurysms,”) pipopes, mirreyes, progres ...