Off the Road, José Permar’s debut about the race’s effects on Mexican locals in towns along the route, won an Atlanta Film Festival award.
Stories by Rich Tenorio
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Juan Villoro’s latest book celebrates joys and tragedies of life as a chilango
Horizontal Vertigo recounts growing up Mexico City’s labyrinth and living through some of its biggest historical events of the last 40 years.
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Artist’s catrinas, coyotes and serpent gods explore issues of social justice
The book Graphic in Transit is a primer on Sergio Sánchez Santamaría, the nation’s acclaimed modern lithograph artist you’ve never heard of.
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This year’s Tokyo winners join a 120-year tradition of Mexican medalists
Mexico’s athletes have won Olympic medals for over a century, the first being a bronze in polo, garnered in 1900 at the Games in Paris.
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Recognition slow for man behind Mexico’s sole periodic table discovery
Scientist Andrés Manuel del Río identified vanadium in 1801, but controversy prevented him from getting the credit for over a century.
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Biologist’s memoir recounts his global journeys in search of extinct species
Forrest Galante’s new memoir shares tales from his globetrotting life spent finding animals believed to be no longer in existence.
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Baile de los 41 imagines secret life of Porfirio Diaz’s gay son-in-law
In 1901, 41 men were arrested in an illegal Mexico City gay club. A new film imagines the rumored 42nd guest: the husband of Díaz’s daughter.
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Film featuring Michoacán’s monarch butterflies takes flight at film festivals
‘Son of Monarchs’ by Alexis Gambis has been winning prizes at several United States film festivals this year, including Sundance.
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Meeting the Tarahumara inspired book on ‘weird’ history of exercise
Daniel Lieberman’s encounter with an indigenous Copper Canyon tribal group inspired him to research how we became so concerned with fitness.
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Film depicts artist Josep Bartoli’s little-known friendship with Frida Kahlo
The acclaimed film looks at the Spanish artist’s relationship with Kahlo after he landed in Mexico following the fall of France to the Nazis.
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Zapotec author captures the troubled duality of modern indigenous life
Pergentino José’s book, Red Ants, published by Deep Vellum Press, is the first literary work to be translated from Zapotec to English.
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Mexico’s contemporary authors find fertile symbolic ground in ghosts
Literary scholar Carolyn Wolfenzon’s book investigates how many of Mexico’s contemporary authors share the theme of specters in their work.
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Film shines a rare spotlight on Mexico City’s Syrian Jewish community
Director Isaac Cherem’s debut, “Leona,” is the first cinematic treatment of the ethnic group, and, for him, a deeply personal story.
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US Negro League stars found better pay, integration and fame in Mexico
James Bell was a baseball star here during the 1940s, playing for teams that offered more money and acceptance than he could find in America.
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Young writer pens children’s book based on his own adventures in Mexico
Though not yet out of middle school, Arden Pala is already an author. His latest tome for young readers raises money for a Covid-19 fund.
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An 1800s vaccine campaign in Mexico offers lessons in beating Covid
In 1803, physician Francisco Javier de Balmis came to Mexico on a mission — to end smallpox. His story could inform today’s vaccine campaigns.
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Escaped slaves’ routes to freedom also pointed southward to Mexico
Slaves escaping owners in places like Louisiana and Texas often found Mexico a preferable destination to faraway northern states.
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Scholar’s mission: help modern readers discover a Mayan creation story
Learning about the Popol Vuh as a teenager, Amherst College scholar Ilan Stavans was fascinated by the millennia-old text.
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Film documents indigenous-outsider clash at a Chihuahua ultramarathon
“The Infinite Race” documentary investigates a culture clash between indigenous and international athletes at 2015’s Ultra Marathon Caballo.
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Links between Tijuana and San Diego are forging a single community
Tijuana and San Diego residents have learned to combine the best of both cities. Their cooperation is a model for other border nations.
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Photographer’s exhibition reveals an emptier Mexico City in lockdown
Miguel Tovar’s photos, documenting an empty Mexico City under Covid-19 lockdown, were recently recognized by The David Rockefeller Center.
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Photographer captures the Day of the Dead most have never seen
Ann Murdy’s book “On the Path of Marigolds” documents little-known Day of the Dead traditions in Mexico’s smaller towns and villages.
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Finding the elusive jaguar was a challenge for wildlife photographer
It took several months for Alejandro Prieto to capture his first image of a jaguar in the wild. It was the first of 100.
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Fifth Sun, a history of the Aztecs as seen through their own eyes
500 years after the Aztec empire made its first fateful contact with the Spanish conquistadors, a new book examines the Aztecs through their own lens.
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Collection of rare Mexican cookbooks now accessible online
A set of Mexican cookbook manuscripts dating back to the 18th century are now available online thanks to a University of Texas initiative.
