What I can disobey now, what we all disobey in our tragic and inconsistent and collective logic, is patriarchy’s pact of silence. We can also disobey the rush of social media, which demands that we act quickly and sometimes in ways that are neglectful of ourselves and others.
Read MoreThe journalist and contributor to The Sorrows of Mexico reflects on the ‘three demons’ of narco-politics, censorship and corruption, and on the future of journalism in his country.
Read MoreTranslator and writer Jethro Soutar reports from the 2015 Guadalajara International Book Fair, the biggest annual literary event in the Spanish-speaking world.
Read MoreAcclaimed journalist and activist Lydia Cacho responds to the murder of the Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa.
Read MoreAcclaimed journalist and activist Lydia Cacho responds to the murder of the Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa.
Read MoreAs representatives of the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa arrive in London, Mexico’s greatest living writer Elena Poniatowska tells their story.
Read MoreSanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
Read MoreSanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
Read More‘The ones who managed to escape’ and ‘the ones who didn’t live to tell the tale’ – Juan Pablo Villalobos on how we have failed young people in Latin America
Read MorePergentino José Ruiz on the importance of Mexico’s indigenous languages and oral culture
Read MorePergentino José Ruiz on the importance of Mexico’s indigenous languages and oral culture
Read MoreIn the latest of our PEN Atlas Mexican series, Laia Jufresa muses on the fall and rise of Mexican comics
Read MoreYuri Herrera on impunity and corruption in Mexico, and the careful word choices of President Enrique Peña Nieto
Read MoreYuri Herrera on impunity and corruption in Mexico, and the careful word choices of President Enrique Peña Nieto
Read MoreWriters and PEN members all over the world have been supporting the struggle of the parents of the disappeared Mexican students to discover the truth about their children. On 30 November, on my way to the Feria Internacional del Libro [FIL], I attended a press conference in Mexico City. Speakers included relatives of the 6…
Read MoreWriters and PEN members all over the world have been supporting the struggle of the parents of the disappeared Mexican students to discover the truth about their children. On 30 November, on my way to the Feria Internacional del Libro [FIL], I attended a press conference in Mexico City. Speakers included relatives of the 6…
Read MoreJuan Villoro writes about the recent abductions and murders of students in Mexico
Read MoreJuan Villoro writes about the recent abductions and murders of students in Mexico
Read MoreNepotism, sinecures, blackmailing paedophiles, bribing officials… Juan Pablo Villalobos writes for PEN Atlas this week, explaining how a writer can expose and enable the general corruption of his country
Read MoreJuan Pablo Villalobos returns to PEN Atlas this week, asking us to imagine the struggle of being a writer in Mexico, where fiction is so often outpaced by brutal reality
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