Prelude : Samuel Ramos : excerpt from "the use of thought"
Major Aranda's hand / Alfonso Reyes
My cousin Agueda and in the wet shadows / Ramon Lopez Velarde
Excerpt from Pedro Paramo / Juan Rulfo
L. A. nocturne : the angels / Xavier Villaurrutia
How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua
India / Richard Rodriguez
Meditations on the South Valley : poem IX / Jimmy Santiago Baca
B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca / Rudolofo Anaya
Excerpt from The death of Artemio Cruz / Carlos Fuentes
Introduction from Here's to you, Jesusa! / Elena Poniatowska
day of the dead and I speak of the city / Octavio Paz
Excerpt from The book of lamentations / Rosario Castellanos
Daddy with Chesterfields in a rolled up sleeve / Ana Castillo
Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros
Maria de Covina / Dagoberto Gilb
Excerpt from Crossing over : a Mexican family on the migrant trail / Ruben Martinez
Hagiography of the apostate / Ignacio Padilla
Anut Leonor and Anut Natalla / Angeles Mastretta
Identity hour or, what photos would you take of the endless city? / Carlos Monsivais
Fish of fleeting skin / Coral Bracho.
