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Litro World Series · 2017 · Issue 165
Borders as place, language and memory
Breaking Borders brought together writers from across Latin America and beyond to examine what borders mean when they are geographic, political, linguistic and personal.
17 works
15 place hubs
2017 archive edition
Guest-edited by Chloe Aridjis, the edition moves between Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, New York, London and elsewhere — tracing migration, exile, memory and the unstable lines between places. Explore the edition through its writers, stories and places.
Explore by place
A literary map of the edition
Follow the places that connect these works — from Havana and Miami to London, New York, Mexico and beyond.
17works
15place hubs
Editorial place connections, not precise story locations.
Browse the atlas
Original edition
Browse the 2017 digital issue
The original embedded edition is preserved here as part of the archive.
Inside this issue
Read the complete edition
Seventeen works across fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and editorial writing.
Chloe Aridjis: Guest Editor’s Letter
Chloe Aridjis Editorial
Figures over the Strait
Jorge Enrique Lage Essay
Moving Borders
Guadalupe Nettel Essay
The Temptation of Hope
Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles Essay
Daily Resurrection
Alejandro Jodorowsky Poetry
Sleeping Beauties
Lina Meruane Fiction
Poems
Natalia Toledo Poetry
Border Triptych
Claudia Salazar Jiménez Fiction
The Last
Carlos Fonseca Fiction
Bulletproofed
Fernanda Torres Essay
The Fortean Limes
Yoss Fiction
Rotterdam
Julio Paredes Fiction
Two Cities, Two Islands: An Interview with Miriam Gómez
Carlos Fonseca Interview
In Transit
Antônio Xerxenesky Essay
I Understand
Rafael Gumucio Essay
The Latin America edition
Chloe Aridjis Issue hub
Borders
Michel Laub Fiction
From the archive
Why Breaking Borders still matters
Published in 2017, Breaking Borders approached the border not as a single line on a map but as a lived condition: something crossed, imposed, remembered, translated and sometimes carried from one place to another.
Read together, these works form a record of movement across countries, languages and identities. The Atlas above restores those connections so the edition can be entered by place as well as by title or writer.
Guest editor
Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican-British novelist and writer based in London. She is the author of Book of Clouds, Asunder, Sea Monsters, which won the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and The Shadow of the Object, longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.
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