We’re excited to announce that Romeo Guzman is now an associate editor at Tropics of Meta, and will […]
Category Archive: Mexico
It’s difficult to overstate the ubiquity of Juan Gabriel’s voice in the everyday lives of Mexicans, both here in the US and in Mexico, where the megastar’s dozens of hits, some of them decades old, still blare from roadside fondas, urban nightclubs, and blown out stereo speakers.
In 1933, the visionary designer Charles Eames absconded from St. Louis to Mexico, in an effort to “[take] […]
I am not exactly the world’s most cosmopolitan traveler. I never got on a plane until I was […]
In October 2015, while in Tijuana’s Moustache Bar listening to anarcho punk from Mexico City, Pomona, and Riverside, […]
In a recent New York Times editorial, Nicolas Kristof returned to an old saw, one he visited in […]
When Donald Trump bellowed his now-famous screed against immigration, accusing Mexican migrants of crime, disease, and more or […]
Longtime friend of Tropics of Meta Pavel Shlossberg just published his first book, a fantastic ethnographic study of […]