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.
MND Staff
Sofía Robleda’s newest novel, “The Other Moctezuma Girls,” offers an entertaining mix of Mexican history and drama, infused with real moral force, writes MND book reviewer Ann Marie Jackson.
Not only is a new park coming to Guadalajara, but one of the world’s most famous authors will keynote the 2026 FIL Guadalajara, Latin America’s premier book fair, writes Dawn…
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