Carmen Boullosa is one of Latin America's most original voices, and in Cleopatra Dismounts she has written a remarkable reconstruction of the life of the Egyptian queen, who famously died in Marc Antony's arms. But is this really the ...

The term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the ...

One of BBC's 10 Books to Read in August"an altogether fresh take on the coming-of-age story...Boullosa manages to merge humor with panic seamlessly." — Publishers Weekly Starred Review"Carmen Boullosa is, in my opinio...

"Mexico's greatest woman writer."—Roberto Bolaño"A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"—Miami HeraldAn imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, a...

What if everything they’ve told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and 91 chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she...