born in Mexico in 1949, studied modern dance in New York. She has reported on Latin America for periodicals (»New Yorker«, »New York Review of Books«). She has long been considered an authority on political journalism. In 1991 she published »Samba«, a book about Brazil and its folk music tradition.
Alberto Ruy Sánchez was born in Mexico City in 1951. After studying information and communication studies at the Iberoamericana University in Mexico City, he lived in Paris, where from 1975 to 1982 he continued his studies under Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, focusing in particular on Film and
Adolfo Castañón was born in Mexico City in 1952. He studied literature and philosophy at the autonomous university UNAM and was then engaged in literary research at the Institute for Philology. Since 1975 he has worked for the Mexican publisher Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), which he headed from 1985
