Literature
- Introduction to Horace Walpole's Hieroglyphic Tales
- Dodgson's Dodges: On Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno
- Introduction to Louis Ferdinand Céline's Ballets Without Music, Without Dancers, Without Anything
Opinion
General Culture
- Essay/review on the Trickster, solicited for Terra Nova and picked up by the on-line magazine Terrain.
- on hanging matisse upside-down (mini essay)
Asian Culture
Latin America
- brief bits from
The U.S.-Mexican War
"Carol and Tom Christensen have written what amounts to the clearest, most balanced and fully documented account of what can truly be called the birth of imperial America."
-- Carlos Fuentes
President James K. Polk
Resaca de Palmas - this piece on an Ecuadorian interlude was solicited for an anthology, but has gone unpublished since the editor's book deal fell through
- mini-essays: entries from my book of days:
on the virgin of guadalupe, part one
on the virgin of guadalupe, part two
a word on christopher columbus
on tenochtitlan
on the assassination of atahuallpa
Humor
- Hogs, Romance, and AOL USer 66
- Why the U.S. can't compete in the World Cup
- Neanderthal Surrogate Project Application Exam
- If historical figures had been webmasters
- Spam I Am
Calendar / Cycle of the Year (see also my Book of Days and Tom's Garden)
To come (notes to self):
- On translation (essay from a forthcoming book from the Center for the Art of Translation)
- Discovering Alejo Carpentier
- From The Discovery of America and Other Myths
- Para Llegar a Julio Cortázar, Enormisimo Cronopio
- A Punjabi Journey
- The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology
- Interviews with Carlos Fuentes, Luisa Valenzuela, others
- etc
The
Reader, anonymous,
daguerreotype, ca. 1850
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