You can’t isolate yourself. Modernity arrives and replaces what you have. Changing Dreams by Vicki Ragan and Shepard Barbash is a thoughtfully written and provocative book – one which should be of interest to anyone interested in the culture and the sociological changes taking place in Mexico today. The text, written by Barbash, is enhanced by […]
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Mexico is a haven for exiles where the braver or weaker or more foolish can find themselves or re-create themselves or… lose themselves. T. M. Spooner’s novel, Notes from Exile, is a lakeside story, and because it is, I feel a certain nostalgic empathy for the book. It’s hard not to considering the number of years I’d […]
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Available from Amazon Books: Paperback or Kindle The United States and Mexico struggled through volatile years of suffering and carnage to become unified nations. Michael Hogan’s thoroughly researched and passionately written Abraham Lincoln and Mexico is a thought-provoking read that covers part of that struggle from 1822, when Americans settlers first arrived on Mexican territory, to 1867, when […]
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This is a list of 17 sources in Spanish and English dealing with black Mexicans from a variety of perspectives. I chose these few sources from a large bibliography that I have been compiling since 1992, hoping that these works will not be too difficult to find. A good university library should have most of […]
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The debut novel in the cartel trilogy by Jeanine Kitchel is a winner! Wheels-up: A Novel of Drugs, Cartels and Survival, is Jeanine Kitchel’s fast-paced debut novel in her cartel trilogy. Mexico aficionado and prolific writer Kitchel will transport you into the heart of the drug cartel business. Zooming from cities to jungles and haciendas located […]
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All journeys of discovery have a beginning and an end. But the joyful experience of discovery itself has no limits. One of the greatest experiences of discovery is to place your self into a totally alien, foreign and perhaps an initially threatening environment and let life take its course. The introduction to “Oaxaca” speaks to […]
Continue ReadingAvailable from Amazon Books: Paperback Kindle Do you want to be transported to a small island in the Mexican Caribbean and follow the ongoing adventure of two feisty young women who accidentally uncover a notorious pirate’s secret in an ancient cemetery during Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebration? Trouble Isla, Lynda L. Lock’s second book in her Isla […]
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Baby Boomers: Reinvent Your Retirement in Mexico By Karen Blue CreateSpace, 2014 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback Book lovers, especially those contemplating retirement near Lake Chapala, will enjoy Karen Blue’s conversational interviews in Baby Boomers: Reinvent Your Retirement in Mexico. But my guess is that the book may be more attractive to people who have already moved south […]
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Good Reading Cormac McCarthy is best known for his Border Trilogy, three novels set along the Texas-Mexico border, the first of which, All the Pretty Horses, is set almost entirely in Mexico, south of the Texas border. All the Pretty Horses won both the National Book Award (1992) and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A few years […]
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The Dark Side of the Dream (2012) By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Egret Books, 2012 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback For citizens of both the United States and Mexico, the Mexican-American border, as well as the matter of Mexican immigration are topics of current political dispute, thinly masking a cultural stigmatism that does not fit well with American history […]
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