Our Mexico bureau chief recommends books on the country’s politics, people and food
By Octavio Paz. Translated by Lysander Kemp, Yara Milos and Rachel Phillips Belash.To zoom in on Mexico’s people, try this book by Octavio Paz, a Nobel prize-winning author and poet. Although his collection of essays is seven decades old, Paz’s observations remain relevant today. It is best known for the questions he asks about a quest for a national identity and about the psyche of Mexicans.
Patriarchal as Mexico may be, women are now represented at all levels of politics, business and culture. Valeria Luiselli is one of a group of female Mexican authors causing excitement—with justification. A good place to dip into modern Mexican fiction is Ms Luiselli’s second novel, published in 2013 and released in English two years later. It won many accolades and been nominated for prizes.
Since 1965 at least 16m Mexicans have crossed the border to the United States, influencing the cultures on both sides of the border. In the past two decades more Mexicans returned than left, thanks largely to the ageing of the Mexican population and better economic opportunities at home. But over the past couple of years the number has been rising again, in part because of the pandemic and its economic effects. Plenty of academic and journalistic books about the migration north exist.
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