Spatial, Sonic and Sublime Remains of War
I read Javier Uriarte’s book over the course of a winter long both in metaphor and reality, during a pandemic that peaked in snowy New England in the early months of 2021. One might imagine
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Country: General Considerations
Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude was Written and Became a Global Classic
When, at the age of seventeen, I heard that Gabriel García Márquez had won the Nobel Prize, I was surprised, not that he had won it, because I knew of him at the time as a writer of world
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Building New Types of Conversations in Education During COVID-19
English + Español
As a student in the Master’s Program of International Education Policy at Harvard Graduate School of Education, I could not remain passive in the face of the Covid-19 crisis. I have
Exhausted Women
English + Español
We women are tired. Physically and psychologically. It is not just the fatigue due to the pandemic, or that of a particular context. It is historical fatigue, transmitted and accumulated,
Buscando America: A Sephardic Pre-History of Jewish Latin America
When I give public lectures about Conversos and Sephardim in the Americas, whether it is in the United States or South America, I always get at least one question, “Columbus was Jewish,
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