Mexican novelist Julián Herbert’s new offering, La casa del dolor ajeno, revisits the 1911 massacre of 303 Chinese citizens by revolutionary combatants in the city of Torreón, an event that the novel suggests has its analogues in the present.

The literary critic George Steiner has claimed that Muhammad Ali was an aesthetic phenomenon, a kind of god that Homer would have understood perfectly.

Enrique Graue, the current president of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), called upon his fellow citizens to “raise their voice” against budget cuts proposed by certain “financial-technocratic minds” in the government.