Editor’s note: Stories can change how we see a place—whether by revisiting its past or bringing people together in the present.
In this edition, Mexico Well-Read explores Sofía Robleda’s “The Other Moctezuma Girls,” a historical novel that places Tecuichpoch, Moctezuma’s daughter, at the center of a story too often told through the men around her. Blending family history with adventure, the novel invites readers to imagine familiar Mexican landscapes through a different perspective.
Meanwhile, our latest MND Local Guadalajara looks ahead to Salman Rushdie’s keynote at the city’s 40th International Book Fair, the Día de Campo music festival and plans for a greener public gathering space. Together, these stories celebrate possibility: the perspectives literature opens and the encounters that make a city’s cultural life thrive.
