ISABEL ALLENDE AND CELIA ZAPATA
AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Las comadres on testosterone, politics and humor

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EL AMANTE INCONCLUSO: Bill Clinton
de Gabriel García Márquez

GATE OF PLEASURE
A warm appreciation of las nalgas
by Rosario Ferré

BOB’S BOYS
A dispatch from California’s war zone
by Denise Dowling

WANDERING TIME
Chicano nature writing at its best
by Luis Alberto Urrea

GRACIELA ITURBIDE
Platicando con la fotógrafa mexicana
de Maribel Álvarez

ROSARIO IBARRA AND THE
ZAPATISTA IMAGINATION
On the campaign trail for the EZLN
by Claudia Meléndez

ON THE DISCOVERY OF DEATH
AT AN EARLY AGE
Santiago de Chile, September 10, 1973
by Ariel Dorfman

NOW THE WORLD WILL KNOW
Pinochet’s arrest will expose the truth
by Francisco Letelier

THE POLITICS OF MERENGUE
How intellectuals changed the shape of music
by Patricia Guadalupe

LIFE AFTER HARD TIME
Losing bad habits — like bank robbery
by Joe Loya

COMENTARIO: SPRINGTIME IN EUROPE
by Richard Rodríguez

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libros

THE NANNY AND THE ICEBERG
by Ariel Dorfman
reviewed by Elizabeth Picco

GET SMART WITH YOUR HEART
by Suzanne López
reviewed by Julia Reynolds

música

NI ES LO MISMO NI ES IGUAL
by Juan Luis Guerra
reviewed by Patricia Guadalupe

SIEMPRE HE ESTADO AQUI
by Agustín Lira & Alma
interview by Gary Soto

fotografía

LAS COLONIAS
Doing without in South Texas
by Paul Myers

RICARDO LEGORRETA
An architect of color splashes the West
by Janjaap Dekker

BULL, SOUTH 5TH ST.
by Régina Monfort

YOUNG CÉSAR
by Rick Tejada-Flores and Anita Quintanilla

ficciones

THE WAR, THIS TIME, WAS GETTING SERIOUS
by Francisco Hinojosa
translated by Kurt Hollander

cartoons

THE NAVAS OF HAZEL COURT
Wrestler comics! Oh boy!
by Jaime Hernández

poesía

LA CASA
by Celia Correas Zapata