Juan Villoro

Juan Villoro (b. 1956, Mexico City) has been recognized for his journalistic and literary work with such international prizes as the Premio Herralde de Novela, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Premio Rey de España, and the Prix Antonin Artaud. A columnist for the newspaper Reforma, where this essay first appeared, he is the author of God Is Round (2016) and The Wild Book (2017), both published by Restless Books.

The Parable of the Bread

August 18, 2020 | Juan Villoro

A seller of lepyoshka in Kiev Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / Photo by Irene Strong / Unsplash In And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again, forthcoming on August 25, dozens of es...
El vértigo horizontal by Juan Villoro

Spring 2019
Juan Villoro

Mexico City. Almadía. 2018. 408 pages. El vértigo horizontal, by the Mexican writer Juan Villoro, is designed as a cartographic map of the Mexico City subway with different lines and intersec...
God Is Round: Tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs, and Scandals of the World’s Favorite Game by Juan Villoro

May 2016
Juan Villoro

Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2016. 256 pages. Juan Villoro knows that soccer fans often enjoy rewatching and recounting a spectacular goal more than seeing it for the first time. Reading God Is Roun...
Arrecife by Juan Villoro

March 2013
Juan Villoro

Barcelona. Anagrama. 2012. ISBN 978-8433972359 It is no accident that Juan Villoro is classified as a postmodern author. We know that, in general, literary criticism resorts to the postmodern label wh...