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Anyone who spends time in Mexico City will spend much of it in traffic. One of the most clogged cities in the world, residents will lose on average 158

While you embrace Osaretin Ugiagbe’s fascinating paintings at Slag & RX Galleries, it is worth keeping in mind the necessary slippage between the signifier and the signified. In the case of proper names, for example, the sign is a mark of identity: there can only be one Osaretin Ugiagbe, but who he is for himself and who he is for others is a matter of perception. The same can easily be said of his paintings, and it is the idea of such misperceptions and lost meanings that should guide us t...

Juan Villoro, who spent over two decades perfecting one book about Mexico City, recommends reading on the city he loves. “Mexico is too complex,” a visitor said. “It needs to be read.”

The art exhibition Still Standing: Ancient Forest Futures opened at the Legacy Art Gallery, reflecting upon our relationship with forests.

Thoughtful Ways to Celebrate Cinco De Mayo in Dallas The Latino Cultural Center hopes the community will treat May 5 as a day to learn about Mexican history and culture. By Taylor Crumpton Published in Arts & Entertainment May 4, 2021 1:17 pm Cinco De Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day, which fails on September 16. It’s a day to commemorate the Battle of Puebla, Mexico’s victory over the French, in 1862. The first stateside celebration was a hyper-regional event, held by Mexican miners i...

Paul Therouxs travel secrets – and the unseen side of Hawaii The author of 56 books discusses his latest novel, why he lives in Hawaii, what draws him to a place, and the future of travel The writer Paul Theroux at his home in Haleiwa, Hawaii Paul Theroux turned 80 this month, but he’s still behaving like a writer keen to make a name for himself. Last Train to Zona Verde, which he published in 2013, may have been, as the subtitle has it, his “ultimate African safari”, but it wasn’t ...

Mexico City: a virtual tour through film, music, books, food and art Shaun Pett © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Starcevic/Getty Images At a community dinner in Santa María la Ribera – one of Mexico City’s first suburbs, built in the late 1800s just west of the old centre – I met a European contortionist. He was in his 70s and used a wheelchair. Circus work had first brought him to the country decades ago, but then he’d never left. “I feel more alive here,”...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Critics picks: 10 March book releases to read, including The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson and a history of Latin music Jim Kiest, Staff writer FacebookTwitterEmail 2of18 3of18 4of18 5of18 Imbolo Mbue, the author of the new book ?’How Beautiful We Were,?“ near her home in Rhinebeck, N.Y., Feb. 15, 2021. The book is a story about how people respond to environmental destruction. It was delayed by the pandemic and before that by the success of her prev...