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Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: October 14, 2024
Mexican Yuri Herrera’s novel about Benito Juarez in New Orleans, and poetry by Mexican Fabio Morabito and Argentine Sergio Chejfec
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
BENITO JUAREZ, who, being of Zapotec origin, became Mexico’s first and only indigenous president in 1858 and the first democratically elected indigenous president in the postcolonial Americas, spent nearly 18 months in New Orleans in the early 1850s as a political exile.
Despite numerous historical accounts and his well-known autobiography, these 18 months in New Orleans were a mysterious void in the record.
What did Juarez do in the city soon after a major yellow fever epidemic swept through it? What did he see, and who did he meet ?
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