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The Mexification of Modernity

Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Rebecca West, Charles Macomb Flandrau, and Sybille Bedford are just some of the literary greats that visited and wrote travelogues on Mexico. Indeed,...

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Aldous Huxley and the “brave new world” of pyramids or progress

In picking up on my earlier post on the ‘foreign flâneur’ in Mexico and the discussion of Sybille Bedford, my attention now turns to Aldous Huxley. Recent controversy has been rightly raised due to the...

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Modelo Antiguo and New Mexican Grandeur

On the theme of space and Mexico City on this blog my attention has thus far spanned the novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II to include The Shadow of the Shadow [1986], Just Passing Through [1986] and...

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