Octavio Paz, edited and trans. from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions, $39.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2043-9 Paz (1914–1998), who won the Nobel Prize in 1990, dominated Mexican letters ...

I learnt of Indranil Chakravarty’s The Tree Within: The Mexican Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz’s Years in India through a WhatsApp message sent by my friend, Abir. He added, “This book has been written ...

Mexico City (AFP) – A quarter century after his death, the cultural legacy of Mexican literary giant Octavio Paz is going on display at the poet's former home in Mexico City. The museum, which opened ...

If you think poetry can’t be popular, think again: the most popular free iPad app in Mexico’s app store is a poem, Blanco. So what is this app and why is it so successful? “Blanco” is the title of a ...

The ship approached the Bombay harbour early one morning in December 1951. As it moved forward sluggishly across “an enormous mass of liquid mercury, barely undulating”, Paz’s excitement grew. The ...