A biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today's social justice, ecology, and gender equality movementsAmmon Hennacy was arrested over thirty times for opposing US entry in World War 1. Later, when he refused to pay taxes that support war, he lost his wife and daughters, and then his job. For protesting the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was hounded by the IRS and driven to migrant labor in the fields of the West. He had a romance with Do...

The romantic idea of the writer as an isolated genius has been discredited, but there are few empirical studies documenting the role of "gatekeeping" in the literary process. How do friends, agents, editors, translators, small publishers, and reviewers-not to mention the changes in technology and the publishing industry-shape the literary process? This matrix is further complicated when books cross cultural and language barriers, that is, when they become part of world literature. Gate...

En este número de Texturas se pueden encontrar textos de Enrique Tierno Galván, Gustavo Guerrero, Michael Bhaskar, Elea Giménez Toledo, Ana García García, Jorge Mañana Rodríguez, Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, William Marling, Carolina Herrera Zamarrón, Jesús Ortiz, Mike Shatzkin, Cliff Guren, Thad Mcilroy, Steven Sieck, Gaia Banks y Maica Rivera.

William Marling's provocative work analyzes—in specific terms—the impacts of American technology and culture on foreign societies. Marling answers his own question—how "American" is globalization?—with two seemingly contradictory answers: "less than you think" and "more than you know." Deconstructing the myth of global Americanization, he argues that despite the typically American belief that the United States dominates foreign countries, the practical effects of "Americanization" amount t...