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Drácula Con Queso

When there’s no hope, there’s Taco Bell, Big Beef indigestion, and pairs of Cool Ranch lips spread across the kitchen table. Brown paper after-party living más all over the wood…

Death of the Druid

Niagara Falls is still a perfect place to commune with nature. Yes, it’s kitschy. Yes, everything smells wet. Yes, it’s overrun with tourists (I was there during a national cheer…

Death as Translation – a Review of Signs Preceding the End of the World

What remains of us after we die? Is death an ending or a transition? Yuri Herrera’s novella Signs Preceding The End of the World provides some fascinating answers to these questions by finding the ultimate simile for death: translation. His story of the indigenous mediator Makina crossing over the Mexican-American border to find her brother contains several cultures, mythologies, and languages, converging in her person.