Issue #25: Mexican Fiction

Contents:

• Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz / “Mexican Narrative at the End of the Century: A Tourist Guide”
• Federico Campbell / “Los Brothers”
• Acela Bernal / “The Taste of Good Fortune”
• Luis Zapata / “The Articles of Faith of a Good Rabble-Rouser” (excerpt)
• Rosina Conde / “Sonatina”
• Jorge Raúl López Hidalgo / “The Knots Are Unconnected”
• Josefina Estrada / “Women in Captivity”
• Francisco Luna / “With a Flower in Her Hand”
• Dante Medina / “Shopping in New York”
• Jorge Ruiz Dueñas / “The Island Kingdom” (excerpt)
• Alberto Ruy Sánchez / “A Hand on the Sand” (excerpt)
• Daniel Sada / “The Opportunist”
• Ana Clavel / “Dark Tears of a Mere Sleeper”
• Mauricio-José Schwarz / “Glimmerings in Blue Glass”
• Raúl Acevedo Savin / “Momo Camacho’s Message”
• José Joaquín Blanco / “The Lady-Killer” (excerpts)
• Juan Antonio Di Bella / “Nanoroutines” (excerpt)
• Sergio Gómez Montero / “The Children of God” (excerpts)
• Jesús Guerra / “The Universe is Named Julia”
• Alberto Blanco / “The Scribe’s Dream” and “Adventures in an Inkwell”
• Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz / “Border Hotel” and “Pancho Villainies”
• Hernán Gutiérrez / “The Third Hobby or Conical Life” (excerpts)
• Regina Swain / “The Devil Also Dances in the Aloha” and “Señorita Supermán and the Instant Soup Generation”
• Patricia Laurent Kullick / “Crazy Cuts”
• Luz Mercedes Barrera / “Molding You”
• Ignacio Betancourt / “The Omen”
• Cristina Ibarra / “The Little Eastern Star”
• Carlos Adolfo Gutiérrez Vidal / “The Festive Years,” “Calm,” and “Bedouin Rap”
• Paco Ignacio Taibo II / “Tlaloc”
• Mónica Lavín / “Nicolasa’s Lace”
• Hugo Valdés Manríquez / “The Crime on Aramberri Street” (excerpt)
• Silvia Castillejos Peral / “Tomorrow the World Ends”
• Regina Cohen / “Jazzbluesing”
• José Manuel Di Bella / “For Our Daily Bread”

Art:

• Bibiana Fadilla Maltos / two images / mixed media
• Raúl Romano Osuna / two photographs
• Contributors’ Notes