Ruben Espinoza Archive
The Humanities Are Not In Crisis: Two Writers Whose Pens Shape the Arab World
I just got back from MLA 2016, the annual Modern Language Association conference in which every year (every city) you’ll hear a variation of this same question at least five times a day: Are the humanities still relevant? That is, of course, the general anxiety that underwrites so many
The Paris Attacks And The Shared Humanity Of Central American Poetry
I always get my hair cut when I’m in Mexico City. I have weird hair and a barber who knows how to cut it. He’s the kind of barber that slick-slacks his scissors between snips, between syllables too so that when he talks—about sports, cars, the news, anything—his speech