Nahua
Read an Excerpt from Álvaro Enrigue's Novel 'Sudden Death,' About Empires, Mexico, and Featherwork
A story about the unlikely intertwined story of a Nahua featherworker, a Spanish lawyer, and the infamous conquistador Hernán Cortés.
The Fighting Farm Women of Guerrero, Mexico
At midday, I set out for Cruzco, a sacred spring where the people from the village meet every year to make offerings to their deities. Once they'd laid down their flowers, food, resin or wax, or recited a prayer or a song, they all begin to line up for...
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